that perfect patent protection is optimal under symmetric information, whereas this is not so if the licensor has private … for most patent protection levels, yet the latter dominates the former in the presence of an optimal policy for each …. This allows us to derive a combination of patent protection and R&D subsidy that yields the first-best results under …

Patents and crowdfunding both attempt to foster early stage innova-tions. In theory, patents signal quality and value … interac-tion between these two innovation tools by determining the impact of a crowdfunding campaign’s patent status on the … campaign’s success and de-livery. The first study examines 9,184 Kickstarter campaigns in patent-eli-gible categories to …

We study the relation between patent concentration and tax-motivated income shifting. Using affiliate-level data for … European multinational corporations (MNCs) and employing the relative share of patents held by an MNC as a measure for patent … concentration, we predict and find that tax-motivated income shifting is increasing in the degree of patent concentration. This …

patent disputes, with a focus on Shapiro(2003)'s consumer protection rule. We show that, when a potential entrant … strategically incurs an entry cost before engaging in a patent dispute, a more stringent settlement policy of deterring costly entry … benefits the patent-holder and may raise static efficiency. Concerning asymmetric information, when the disputants, but not the …