The empirical literature on the economics of patents employs a large array of patentbased measures to proxy economic characteristics of patents such as the "sciencebase", "importance" or "value" of patented…
Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings
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2011
Environmental regulation. What economists usually associate with these words are barriers to competitiveness. The association of Porter (1991) and Porter and van der Linde (1995) is a different one. By relying…
The pharmaceutical industry has recently experienced numerous mergers and acquisitions. The number of studies which investigate the effects of pharmaceutical mergers is, however, rather limited. This paper…