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Competing or Colluding in a Stochastic Environment
Breccia, Adriana; Salgado-Band, Héctor - 2022
. A patent-investment race model is formulated in which innovative firms bargain and reach collusive agreements. It is … shown that, while collusion always delays innovation, it does not necessarily delay competition. Depending on a number of …
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Patent Pools and Cross-Licensing in the Shadow of Patent Litigation
Choi, Jay Pil - 2021
Most patent pools are formed in the shadow of patent litigation as an attempt to settle disputes in regard to … incentives to form a patent pool or engage in cross-licensing arrangements in the presence of uncertainty as to the validity and … incentives. Antitrust implications of patent pools are considered. The effects of patent pools on third party incentives to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319657
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Exploiting Plaintiffs Through Settlement : Divide and Conquer
Che, Yeon-Koo; Spier, Kathryn E. - 2007
This paper considers settlement negotiations between a single defendant and N plaintiffs when there are Fixed costs of litigation. When making simultaneous take-it-or-leave-it offers to the plaintiffs, the defendant adopts a divide and conquer strategy. Plaintiffs settle their claims for less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224717
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Managing Expectations
Lindstädt, René; Staton, Jeffrey K. - 2010
Followers of law, politics and business commonly relate stories of individuals who appear to predict an expected self-performance level below what they believe likely. Candidates, attorneys and firms sometimes seem to under-predict their own capacities. Insofar as individuals typically construct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047090
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Cooperation Without Enforcement? A Comparative Analysis of Litigation and Online Reputation as Quality Assurance Mechanisms
Bakos, Yannis; Dellarocas, Chrysanthos - 2014
Commerce depends on buyers and sellers fulfilling their contractual obligations; mechanisms inducing such performance are essential to well functioning markets. Internet-enabled reputation mechanisms that collect and disseminate consumer feedback have emerged as prominent means for inducing...
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Does licensing induce technological spillovers to domestic firms?
Castro, Luis - 2012 - This Draft: November 2012
which technology transfer occurs. This presence could be in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI), licensing, or …
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Does Licensing Induce Technological Spillovers to Domestic Firms?
Castro, Luis - 2012
which technology transfer occurs. This presence could be in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI), licensing, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098147
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How Reasonable is the 'Reasonable' Royalty Rate? Damage Rules and Probabilistic Intellectual Property Rights
Choi, Jay Pil - 2021
This paper investigates how different damage rules in patent infringement cases shape competition when intellectual …
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Are public and private R&D investments complements or substitutes?
Bohnstedt, Anna - 2014
We develop a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms à la Melitz (2003), where both the government and firms can invest into R&D to improve the country’s technological potential. A higher technological potential raises the average productivity of firms, thus implying lower consumer...
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A tax plan for endogenous innovation
Croce, M. M.; Karantounias, A. G.; Raymond, Stephen; … - 2017
government provide incentives for innovation in a fiscally sustainable way? We address this question by examining the Ramsey … problem of finding optimal tax and subsidy schemes in a model in which growth is endogenously sustained by risky innovation …. We characterize the shadow value of growth and entry in the innovation sector. We find that a profit tax is required to …
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