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We investigate how firms adapt to trademark protection, an extensively used but underexamined form of IP protection, by exploring a historical precedent: China's trademark law of 1923—an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign privileges in China. By exploiting a unique, newly...

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Natural Resource Dependence and Monopolized Imports

Arezki, Rabah; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Merchán, Federico - 2021

This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel database for importing firms in developing and emerging market economies, the paper shows that higher natural resource dependence is associated with larger market concentration of...

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Natural Resource Dependence and Monopolized Imports

Arezki, Rabah; Fernandes, Ana M.; Merchán, Federico; … - 2021

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Omnia Juncta in Uno : Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai's Concession Era

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We investigate how firms adapt to trademark protection, an extensively used but underexamined form of IP protection, by exploring a historical precedent: China’s trademark law of 1923—an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign privileges in China. By exploiting a unique, newly...

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CEO compensation

Frydman, Carola; Jenter, Dirk - 2010

This paper surveys the recent literature on CEO compensation. The rapid rise in CEO pay over the past 30 years has sparked an intense debate about the nature of the pay-setting process. Many view the high level of CEO compensation as the result of powerful managers setting their own pay. Others...

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Fear, Trust and Demand for Regulation : Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia

Borisova, Ekaterina; Frye, Timothy; Schoors, Koen; … - 2023

, existing theories rooted in market failure and government failure have focused on various forms of trust, but have paid little … attention to fear. We test how fear and trust shape demand for government regulation by drawing on especially precise measures … fear of contracting the virus is directly related to greater demand for regulation. In addition, the impact of trust is …

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Division of Labor and the Organization of Knowledge in Production : A Laboratory Experiment

Klockmann, Victor; Schenk, Alicia von; Siemens, … - 2021

Following Garicano (2000), we consider groups whose members decide what knowledge to acquire and how to use this knowledge in production. If efficient production requires common knowledge, all group members should become workers and acquire common knowledge. But if efficient production requires...

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Productivity and Tax Evasion

Dabla-Norris, Era - 2020

The extent of tax compliance has important implications for revenue yield, efficiency and the fairness of any tax system. Tax evasion undermines revenue collection, distorts competition, and undermines a country's development prospects. In this paper, we investigate whether higher productivity...

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Product Differentiation and Oligopoly : A Network Approach

Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023

This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product …

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Persuasion as a contest

Skaperdas, Stergios; Vaidya, Samarth - 2007

From marketing and advertising to political campaigning and court proceedings, contending parties expend resources to persuade an audience of the correctness of their view. We examine how the probability of persuading the audience depends on the resources expended by the parties, so that...

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