information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive … to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it …

We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific … inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of …

particular industry - standards generate potential for market power far beyond the legal protection conferred by patents. Patent … that have fueled antitrust debates and economic research during the last decade. On the one hand, patent owners may be … a patent pool may actually be pro-competitive. After a brief introduction, we explain in the first part why, and on what …

We revisit the signalling hypothesis, whereby potential employers use the duration of unemployment as a signal as to …

future students. This signaling equilibrium is characterized by a relative neglect of teaching by the top-tier schools. Such …

experiment measures a social return to schooling even in the presence of signaling, whereas strategies based on quasi …-experiments are not necessarily robust to signaling. Our instrumental variable estimation finds returns to schooling very similar to … the rest of the literature, which is a strong case against the signaling hypothesis. …

available only to subscribers. This paper argues that authors might use publication strategy as a quality signaling device. The …