Innovation, Licensing, and Competition: Evidence From Genetically Engineered Crops
ABSTRACT We provide a novel empirical analysis of the role of technology licensing, between competitors, for genetically engineered (GE) traits in the US seed industry. We extend the standard differentiated‐product Bertrand pricing model to include trait licensing, which permits us to recover marginal costs and (otherwise unobserved) royalty rates ...
GianCarlo Moschini, Edward D. Perry
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The Determinants of Negotiated Pharmaceutical Prices
ABSTRACT We focus on the determinants of pharmaceutical drug prices. Using data from the Brazilian pharmaceutical market, we find large variations in drug prices across buyers, drug classes, and time periods. Our estimation results provide evidence that transaction‐specific determinants between buyers and sellers (e.g., transaction volume, buyer's ...
Ralph B. Siebert +2 more
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Apple v. Pepper: Applying the Indirect Purchaser Rule to Online Platforms [PDF]
Long-established antitrust precedent bars customers who buy a firm’s product through intermediaries from suing that firm for antitrust damages. In Apple Inc. v.
Wasserman, Jason
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Mergers and Attributions: An Examination of M&A Terminations in 1996–2022
Abstract Firms often make attributions regarding their actions in managing relationships with shareholders and investors. While research utilizing attribution theory has found that firms tend to attribute negative outcomes to external factors and positive outcomes to internal ones, this behaviour can have both positive and negative consequences ...
Zhe (Adele) Xing, Xiwei Yi
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聯合技術標準制定、專利權揭露與競爭法 ― 對2008年Rambus, Inc. v. FTC案 [PDF]
在知識經濟的時代,許多牽涉到智慧財產權之產業經濟活動,即使並無直接創造出市場力量之外觀,依然引發了一些複雜的競爭法疑慮,例如聯合標準制定行為(collaboratively standard setting)下所可能發生的挾持(hold up)行為,已成為近來競爭法政策中,最具爭議性的問題之一,亦是近來包括美國聯邦交易委員會(Federal Trade Commission, FTC)及私人反托拉斯法訴訟,或是歐盟反托拉斯法執行案件中之重大議題。 而其中最令人矚目且最具代表性的案例即為FTC ...
蔡岳勳 Dennis Y.H. Tsai
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The Growing Influence of Economics and Economists on Antitrust: An Extended Discussion [PDF]
Over the past two to three decades economics has played an increasingly important role in the development of U.S. antitrust enforcement and policy. This essay first reviews the major facets of U.S. antitrust enforcement and next reviews the ways in which
White, Lawrence J.
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Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm
Abstract Social media platforms, once hailed as potential champions of dialogue, have evolved into commodified spaces in which their business models incentivize hate speech, misinformation, polarization, and the political fragmentation of society, benefiting corporate and political elites while eroding democracy.
Itziar Castelló +3 more
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Endogenous Antitrust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Impact of Competition-Enhancing Policies on Productivity [PDF]
This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the effect of simultaneous antitrust and trade policy on productivity. We find that treating antitrust across countries as an exogenous policy overestimates the impact of competition on productivity by as ...
Joan-Ramon Borrell, Mara Tolosa
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Protecting Innovation: The Role of State Attorneys General in Antitrust Enforcement [PDF]
Antitrust law was devised at the end of the 19th century. Since then, courts and regulators applying antitrust laws have developed a wide range of appallingly anticompetitive doctrines.
Bill Peacock, Josiah Neeley
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Role boundaries and complex health systems: Implications for medical education
Abstract Health professions practice is becoming increasingly complex with a rapid growth in knowledge and technology, as well as increasing specialization and sub‐specialization within and between health professions. This has resulted in a blurring of the lines of expertise and professional responsibility in health care delivery.
Richard L. Cruess, Robert Sternszus
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