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Ouellette, Lisa Larrimore - 2015

more robust theory development about the mechanisms by which innovation policies work. This pluralistic, evidence …

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Patent Trolls as Financial Intermediaries? Experimental Evidence

Haber, Stephen - 2016

Recent work suggests that Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) — or “patent trolls” — are a new form of financial intermediary. According to this view, individual patent holders are unable to contract with large manufacturers because they lack the financial resources necessary to litigate...

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Posts as trade facilitators

Carballo, Jerónimo; Schaur, Georg; Volpe Martincus, … - 2016 - This version: March 2016

In this paper, we examine an innovative postal export regime that involves both a streamlining of export procedures and … learn. In so doing, we use a unique dataset that consists of the entire universe of Peru's export transactions over the … period 1999-2014 including both regular shipments and postal shipments. We find that the new export mode has been associated …

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To Patent or Not to Patent : A Pilot Experiment on Incentives to Copyright in a Sequential Innovation Setting

Crosetto, Paolo - 2014

This paper presents preliminary results from a pilot experiment dealing with the economic motivations to contribute to Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). In a seminal paper Bessen and Maskin (2006) argue that in a dynamic sequential innovation framework in which every innovation builds on...

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How important are user-generated data for search result quality? Experimental evidence

Klein, Tobias J.; Kurmangaliyeva, Madina; Prüfer, Jens; … - 2022

Do some search engines produce better search results because their algorithm is better, or because they have access to more data from past searches? In the latter case, mandatory data sharing, a policy that is currently discussed, could trigger innovation and would benefit all users of search...

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Price as a signal of product quality : some experimental evidence

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Peracchi, Franco; Tetenov, Aleksey - In: Journal of wine economics 9 (2014) 2, pp. 135-152

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Increasing consumer surplus through a novel product testing mechanism

Vollstaedt, Ulrike; Imcke, Patrick; Brendel, Franziska; … - 2020

Our study proposes a novel mechanism to reduce information asymmetry about product quality between buyers and sellers. Product testing organizations like Consumer Reports (US) and Stiftung Warentest (Germany) seek to reduce this asymmetry by providing credible information. However, limited...