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Appropriate intellectual property protection and economic growth in countries at different levels of development

Kim, Yee Kyoung; Lee, Keun; Park, Walter G.; Choo, Kineung - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 2, pp. 358-375

This paper examines how the role of patents and utility models in innovation and economic growth varies by level of economic development. Using a panel dataset of over 70 countries, we find that patent protection is an important determinant of innovation and that patentable innovations...

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Imitation and innovation driven development under imperfect intellectual property rights

Lorenczik, Christian; Newiak, Monique - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 7, pp. 1361-1375

R&D, and their inventions are subject to imitation. Nevertheless, the previous literature focuses on North–South setups … and developing countries, we extend this literature to allow not only for southern innovation and imitation of northern … goods, but also for imitation targeted at southern innovations. We find the effects of IPRs on R&D and welfare to be non …

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Information and Learning in Oligopoly: An Experiment

Bigoni, Maria; Fort, Margherita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper presents an experiment on learning in repeated games, which complements the analysis of players' actual choices with data on the information acquisition process they follow. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly, with limited a priori information. The econometrics hinges on a...

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Who is Afraid of Pirates? An Experiment on the Deterrence of Innovation by Imitation

Engel, Christoph; Kleine, Marco - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2013

In the policy debate, intellectual property is often justified by what seems to be a straightforward argument: if innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now in most industries for most potential users, appropriating...

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Imitation, stock markets and Stackelberg games

Mignanego, Fausto; Modesti, Paola - In: International Journal of Applied Management Science 6 (2014) 1, pp. 84-97

There is a wide literature about the behaviour of agents in a stock-market in the presence of imitation phenomena. Some …

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Economic theories of sustainable consumption

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1999

The term ‘sustainable consumption’ denotes the search for consumption patterns that reduce human pressure on the environment and nature. This search involves three levels of research. First, the relationship between consumption, lifestyles and environmental sustainability has to be...

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Adoption Versus Adaptation, with Emphasis on Climate Change

Zilberman, David; Zhao, Jinhua; Heiman, Amir - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 4 (2012) 1, pp. 27-53

This article presents lessons from the rich adoption literature for the nascent research on adaptation. Individuals' adoption choices are affected by profit and risk considerations and by credit and biophysical constraints. New technologies spread gradually, reflecting heterogeneity among...

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When is Tit-For-Tat unbeatable?

Duersch, Peter; Oechssler, Joerg; Schipper, Burkhard - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2013

of simple imitation rules that includes tit-for-tat but also imitate-the-best and imitate-if-better. Every decision rule …

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Imitators and Optimizers in a Changing Environment

Hehenkamp, Burkhard; Kaarbøe, Oddvar M. - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2003

We analyze the dynamic interaction between imitation and myopic optimization in an environment of changing marginal …

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EMERGENT SOCIAL LEARNING NETWORKS IN ORGANIZATIONS WITH HETEROGENEOUS AGENTS

CHANG, MYONG-HUN - In: Advances in Complex Systems (ACS) 14 (2011) 02, pp. 169-199

common optimum. An agent may choose to learn via innovation (individual learning) or via imitation (social learning). The … agents are endowed with heterogeneous skills in engaging in the two modes of learning. When the agents choose imitation, they …

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