In recent years, design protection has garnered interest for protecting the appearance of a product, particularly in view of high-profile cases worldwide. In Canada, a Federal Court decision recently clarified the principles applicable to industrial design infringement.The US and Canadian tests...

This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...

Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...