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Cutting Too Close? Design Protection and Innovation in Fashion Goods

Hackett, Petal Jean - 2012

Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Product Complexity, and the Organization of Multinational Firms

Naghavi, Alireza; Spies, Julia; Toubal, Farid - 2021

. We combine data from a French firm-level survey on the mode choice for each transaction with a newly developed complexity … outside firm boundaries. By studying the interaction between product complexity and the IPR protection, we obtain that (i) for …

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The Influence of Product Liability on Vertical Product Differentiation

Baumann, Florian - 2015

This paper explores the impact of product liability on vertical product differentiation when product safety is perfectly observable. In a two-stage competition, duopolistic firms are subject to strict liability and segment the market such that a low-safety product is marketed at a low price to...

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On the Applicability of Global Approximation Methods for Models with Jump Discontinuities in Policy Functions

Görtz, Christoph G. - 2014

modifications necessary to apply EGM can lead to high code complexity. On the other hand, FEM can accommodate larger models with …

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Characterizing the Sustainability Problem in an Exhaustible Resource Model

Mitra, Tapan; Asheim, Geir B.; Buchholz, Wolfgang; … - 2021

The Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz model of capital accumulation and resource depletion poses the following sustainability problem: is it feasible to sustain indefinitely a level of consumption that is bounded away from zero? We provide a complete technological characterization of the...

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Regime Shifts and Uncertainty in Pollution Control

Zeeuw, Aart de; Zemel, Amos - 2021

We develop a simple model of managing a system subject to pollution damage under risk of an abrupt and random jump in the damage coefficient. The model allows the full dynamic characterization of the optimal emission policies under uncertainty. The results, that imply prudent behavior due to...

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Value Function Iteration as a Solution Method for the Ramsey Model

Heer, Burkhard; Maußner, Alfred - 2021

Value function iteration is one of the standard tools for the solution of the Ramsey model. We compare six different ways of value function iteration with regard to speed and precision. We find that value function iteration with cubic spline interpolation between grid points dominates the other...

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Forecasting Exchange Rates : An Investor Perspective

Melvin, Michael - 2013

The popular scholarly exercise of evaluating exchange rate forecasting models relative to a random walk was stimulated by the well-cited Meese and Rogoff (1983) paper. Practitioners who construct quantitative models for trading exchange rates approach forecasting from a different perspective....

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Controlling Complexity in Spatial Modelling

Paelinck, Jean - CESifo - 2000

The present complexity approach is based on two assumptions: A1: measurability of deviations of outcomes with respect … to reference values; A2 : extension of A1 to multi-set analysis. Complexity is then defined in terms of multi … reducing greatly the degree of complexity of the problem, and hence the difficulty of finding a solution. …

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Old George Orwell Got it Backward: Some Thoughts on Behavioral Tax Economics

Slemrod, Joel - CESifo - 2009

It is entirely appropriate that the study of public finance take seriously “behavioral” inconsistencies with traditional models of individual and collective decision-making. This raises the question of whether the state should play a role in protecting individuals from themselves, and...

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