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Dynamic Protection of Innovations Through Patents and Trade Secrets
Belleflamme, Paul; Bloch, Francis - 2021
This paper analyzes the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex innovation who faces the risk of … imitation by a competitor. We suppose that the innovation can be continuously fragmented into sub-innovations. We characterize … fraction of the innovation once. We also study the optimal dynamic patenting policy in a soft novelty regime, when the …
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Managing Trade : Evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas - 2019
We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management practices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First, better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898431
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Tax Incidence on Competing Two-Sided Platforms : Lucky Break or Double Jeopardy
Belleflamme, Paul - 2016
We consider the effects of taxes for competing two-sided platforms. We first detail how a platform passes a tax increase on its prices. Adding price competition, we study next how the tax affects profits. Because of the strategic implications of the cross-side external effects, the tax increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989632
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Tax Incidence on Competing Two-Sided Platforms : Lucky Break or Double Jeopardy
Belleflamme, Paul - 2016
We consider the effects of taxes for competing two-sided platforms. We first detail how a platform passes a tax increase on its prices. Adding price competition, we study next how the tax affects profits. Because of the strategic implications of the cross-side external effects, the tax increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992633