Current accounting rules relating to the issuance of employee stock options (ESOs) treat ESOs as a corporate expense. Prior to 2005, accounting rules required corporations that issued ESOs to treat at-the-money options differently from in-the-money options for financial reporting purposes. A...

Not all Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) are actually essential – a phenomenon called over-declaration. IPR policies of standard-setting organizations require patent holders to declare any patents as SEPs that might be essential, without further SSO review or detailed compulsory declaration...

Potential competition restrains the prices of an incumbent seller when the incumbent can alter the environment perceived by an entrant in a way that both discourages entry and lowers prices. When the product has network effects, the incumbent can make its product ubiquitous and place the...

Cet exposé s'attarde à expliquer les mouvements dans la productivité du travail. Le but de cet ouvrage est de tester les résultats théoriques de Horning (1994). Celui-ci propose des mouvements procycliques du "labour hoarding" comme solution aux problèmes encourus par les modèles des...

Mutual funds form the bedrock of retirement savings in the United States, and, considering their rapid growth, are sure to be more critical in the future. Because the size of fees paid by investors to mutual fund advisers can strongly affect the return on investment, these fees have become a...