The literature on the licensing of an innovation has mainly focused on some specific contract types. We show within the framework of a fairly general model that removing these contractual limitations will lead to extreme market outcomes. Specifically, we find that when the patentee can employ...

A growing number of empirical studies measure how extended copyright terms negatively affect the number of book titles in print. Many of these same studies also demonstrate significant differences in the pricing of bound volumes, ebooks, and audio books editions of public domain and copyrighted...

The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied within a unified model of vertical differentiation. Although information goods are assumed to be perfectly differentiated, demands are interdependent because the copying technology...

We provide novel evidence that deposit competition incentivizes banks to securitize loans. Exploiting the state-specific removal of deposit market caps across the U.S. as an exogenous source of competition, we document a 7.1 percentage point increase in the probability that banks securitize...

A patent only protects an innovator from others producing the same product; it does not provide protection from others producing better products under new patents. Between-patent competition may be as important a limit on innovative returns as within-patent competition, particularly in high-tech...

The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied within a unified model of vertical differentiation. Although information goods are assumed to be perfectly horizontally differentiated, demands are interdependent because the...

Die Popularität der Idee vom kostenlosen und freien Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen Informationen bringt nicht nur das traditionelle System wissenschaftlichen Publizierens in Fachzeitschriften in Bedrängnis. Open Access lässt sich auch kaum mit den traditionellen Rechtfertigungsansätzen zum...