This paper studies how high-powered incentives may affect credit officers’ discriminatory practices in microfinance …’s behavior with the MFI’s mission. However, since incentives are costly, and the MFI’s budget is limited, even a benevolent … eradication of discriminatory practices. A non discriminating welfare-maximizing MFI may thus prefer paying smaller incentives …

successful negotiations involving a granted patent with those involving a pending patent. Similarly, we identify the disclosure … effect by comparing the probability of successful negotiations involving a pending patent with those involving no patent. We … patent instead of a pending patent are 10 per cent more likely to be successfully completed (compared with an average …

not patents affect the direction of research but that scientists’ understanding of patent law; their recent experience …

This paper analyses the development of universities' patent applications in Germany before and after the abolition of … the 'professors' privilege' in 2002. By means of a database with all patent applications of German universities with … legislation is found only for universities without patent activities in the past. This indicates the importance of collecting …