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Lurking Patent Claims and Strategic Royalty Contracts

open access: yesThe Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes optimal licensing contracts when a licensee faces the risk of future infringement claims by unknown patent holders. In a setting where a noncompeting licensor contracts with a monopolistic manufacturer, fixed‐fee licensing is optimal absent such claims.
Jay Pil Choi
wiley   +1 more source

The Incentive Virtues of Performance‐Based Trade Allowances and Loss Leading

open access: yesThe Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A retailer can boost demand for a manufacturer's product through non‐verifiable activities. Performance‐based trade allowances—rebates conditional on the retailer's successful sales efforts—help mitigate this moral hazard problem. In equilibrium, the wholesale contract includes a retail price set below cost, complemented by a rebate for ...
David Martimort, Jérôme Pouyet
wiley   +1 more source

Stable intuition and the rise of deliberative prosociality in childhood. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Hum Behav
Margoni F   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Do Environmentalists Forgo Parenthood? A Life Course Perspective on Fertility Expectations and Behaviors in the UK

open access: yesJournal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To assess whether environmental concerns are associated with fertility expectations and behaviors across the reproductive life course. Background Whether individuals consider climate change in their reproductive decisions is an emerging area of research.
Katya Ivanova, Tobias Rüttenauer
wiley   +1 more source

The "I" in egalitarianism: Hadza hunter-gatherers averse to inequality primarily when personally unfavorable. [PDF]

open access: yesPNAS Nexus
Smith KM   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
wiley   +1 more source

The Adaptive Objectives of State‐Owned Enterprises amid Economic and Political Shifts: Evidence from Brazilian Firms, 1973–1993

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We theorize how state ownership reweights organizational objectives when political and market conditions shift. Using a mixed‐method, history‐to‐theory design, we examine 160 state‐owned and 132 private Brazilian firms from 1973 to 1993. We argue that two mechanisms – appointment politicization and constituency‐protection salience – alter ...
Paul Ferreira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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