Search Results - subject:"complementary"

From hybrid TV towards transmedia: Recent marketing advances of the New Media developments

Hsu, Wen-yi; Shih, Stone - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2013

Large broadcasters and independent media companies are already aware of the global developments in transmedia storytelling and understand that this is the trend (Gambarato, Renira R., 2012). In Taiwan, the HwaCom New Media project started with a government funded HbbTV development project, and...

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Does fragmented or heterogeneous IP ownership stifle investments in innovation?

Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Thickets of partially overlapping patent rights raise costs to secure IPR for innovation. Fragmented IP ownership raises coordination costs to resolve mutual blockades. Inadvertent patent infringement poses the risk of fruits from investments to be exploited. A gap in economic commitment levels...

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Equilibrium mergers in a composite good industry with efficiencies

PARDO-GARCIA, Christina; SEMPERE-MONERRIS, Jose J. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2013

either merge with a similar component producer (horizontal merger) or a complementary one (complementary merger) of a … composite good. Focusing only on strategic reasons, complementary mergers arise at equilibrium only when composite goods are …

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Analysis of Firm Compliance with Multiple Environmental regulations

Liu, Lirong - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 3, pp. 1695-1705

When a firm is regulated by multiple environmental programs, the firm may manage its compliance with these programs systematically so that the regulation of one program can affect firm decisions regarding compliance with other programs. Faced with budget constraints on compliance expenditure, a...

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THE CURRENT STATUS OF ACADEMIC EDUCATION FINANCING IN ROMANIA

Marioara, Avram; Cristina-Petrina, Drăguşin - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2013) 1, pp. 837-845

At the moment academic education is imperative for any society based on knowledge or which tends to it. Academic education can be treated as the "engine" of the society development as it contributes to the individual development of citizens and the development of the community as a whole....

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Behavioral biases and long term care insurance: A political economy approach

DE DONDER, Philippe; LEROUX, Marie-Louise - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2013

We develop a model where individuals all have the same probability of becoming dependent and vote over the social long term care insurance contribution rate before buying additional private insurance and saving. We study three types of behavioral biases, all having in common that agents...

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Equilibria in Markets with Indivisible Goods

Danilov, V.; Koshevoy, G.; Lang, C. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association 18 (2013) 2, pp. 10-34

We discuss the existence of equilibria in ecomomies with indivisible goods. The reasons for which existence of equilibria obtains or not are described. We discuss previous papers on this topic whose results are based on the assumption that goods are gross substitutes. Alternatively in this paper...

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THE EUROPEAN FUNDS – A DRIVING ENGINE OF BALANCED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OR OF DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN THE MEMBER STATES?

Gosa, Vasile; Otiman, Paun Ion; Mateoc Sirb, Nicoleta; … - In: Agricultural Economics and Rural Development 10 (2013) 1, pp. 3-18

The distribution of financial resources for funding agriculture and rural development programs represents one of the main components of the Common Agricultural Policy. The financial mechanisms and the criteria for public funds allocation for direct payments in agriculture are the object of some...

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Patent Pools, Litigation and Innovation

Choi, Jay Pil; Gerlach, Heiko - CESifo - 2013

-competitive effects of patent pools for complementary patents naturally extend for dynamic innovation incentives. However, this simple … case, the licensing fees reflect the strength of patents. Patent pools of complementary patents can be used to discourage … proposition of all-or-nothing in patent litigation. We show that if patents are sufficiently weak, patent pools with complementary …

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Does Easy Start-Up Formation Hamper Incumbents' R&D Investment? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

Colombo, Luca; Dawid, Herbert; Piva, Mariacristina; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the implications that complementary assets needed for the … efforts of incumbent firms are decreasing in the availability of the complementary assets needed for the creation of a start …

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