bias is persistent and robust to several model extensions. Implications for the optimal design of intellectual property …

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 … prefer trendsetting designs and firms compete in prices. We show that design protection, by transforming mass-marketers from …

efficient technology even in the absence of taxation. When taxation is necessary for innovation, both types of taxes are … effective. However, the energy tax outperforms the emission tax in terms of innovation incentives …

We present a potentially benign naked exclusion mechanism that can be applied to sequential innovation; a non …-patentable original innovation by the incumbent supplier fosters derivative innovation by rivals. In the absence of an appropriate legal … innovator. The former ban precludes the exclusion of socially beneficial derivative innovation by causing the incumbent supplier …

We show the effects of the bargaining power of labour unions on product innovation under decentralised and centralised … union bargaining power increases innovation if bargaining is decentralised, the market expansion effect is weak and the cost … of innovation is moderate but low. Otherwise, a higher union bargaining power reduces innovation. Hence, whether a higher …