We analyze the incentives of firms to delay patenting a product they intend to commercialize to maximize the period they can exploit the market under patent protection. We model the patenting and market-launching decisions and consider partial financing of these costs with debt. Agency conflicts...

We build a Real Options model to assess the importance of private provisionand the impact of expropriation risk on investment timing, investmentvolumes, governmental costs and social welfare. We consider two types ofbusinesses (essential and non essential businesses) and two stages (operatingand...