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Intellectual property rights and efficient firm organization

Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008

I provide a justification of intellectual property rights as a source of static efficiency gains in manufacturing, rather than dynamic benefits from greater innovation. I develop a property-rights model of a supply relationship with two dimensions of non-contractible investment. In equilibrium,...

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What is Your Software Worth?

Wiederhold, gio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This article presents a method for valuing software based on the income that use of that software is expected to … present value, and the like, are applied, always focusing on the benefits and costs of software. A major issue, not dealt with … in the literature of valuing intangibles, is that software is continually upgraded. Applying depreciation schedules is …

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Non rivalry and complementarity in computer software

Marengo, Luigi; Pasquali, Corrado - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In this paper we contend that – contrary to what argued by a vast part of the literature – computer software and, more … concerned, this means that innovative activities in computer software are characterized by high degrees of interdepen- dencies … appropriate for computer software, as it may decrease both ex-ante incentives to innovation and ex-post efficiency of diffusion …

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Collective management of intellectual property rights

Dequiedt, V.; Menière, Y.; Trommetter, M. - Laboratoire d'Économie Appliquée de Grenoble, … - 2007

This paper proposes a common analysis for a large set of multilateral agreements that are used to collectively manage intellectual property in industries as different as biotechnologies or information technologies. It discusses how these agreements, based on existing intellectual property...

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Private beats public: A flexible value-added model with Tanzanian school switchers

Brandt, Kasper - 2018

This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both their primary and lower secondary school exam records,...

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Location choices of Swedish independent schools: How does allowing for private provision affect the geography of the education market?

Edmark, Karin - 2018

This paper studies the location decisions of Swedish start-up independent schools. It makes use of the great expansion of independent schools following a reform implemented in 1992 to test what local market characteristics are correlated with independent school entry. The results suggest that...

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Location choices of Swedish independent schools: How does allowing for private provision affect the geography of the education market?

Edmark, Karin - 2018

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The Impact of Attending an Independent Upper Secondary School: Evidence from Sweden Using School Ranking Data

Edmark, Karin; Persson, Lovisa - 2020

independent schools, and we cannot rule out that all of the independent school advantage reflects more generous grading standards … stricter grading standards. …

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The Impact of Attending an Independent Upper Secondary School: Evidence from Sweden Using School Ranking Data

Edmark, Karin; Persson, Lovisa - 2020

independent schools, and we cannot rule out that all of the independent school advantage reflects more generous grading standards … stricter grading standards. …

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Competition between regulated and non-regulated generators on electric power networks

Mumcu, Ayşe; Oğur, Serhan; Zenginobuz, Unal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

The ongoing restructuring of the electricity sectors in many countries raises the policy question of to what extent the public generating assets should be privatized and what the objective function of any remaining public generation companies should be. We analyze the optimal regulatory policy...

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