Author: Suzanne Scotchmer
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: incentives, innovation
Number of Pages: 369
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0262195151
ISBN-13: 9780262195157

Interest in intellectual property and other institutions that promote innovation exploded during the 1990s. Innovation and Incentives provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the economics of innovation, suitable for teaching at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. It will also be useful to legal and economics professionals. Written by an expert on intellectual property and industrial organization, the book achieves a balanced mix of institutional details, examples, and theory. Analytical, empirical, or institutional factors can be given different emphases at different

Author: Suzanne Scotchmer
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: incentives, innovation
Number of Pages: 369
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0262693437
ISBN-13: 9780262693431

Interest in intellectual property and other institutions that promote innovation exploded during the 1990s. Innovation and Incentives provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the economics of innovation, suitable for teaching at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. It will also be useful to legal and economics professionals. Written by an expert on intellectual property and industrial organization, the book achieves a balanced mix of institutional details, examples, and theory. Analytical, empirical, or institutional factors can be given different emphases at different

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Publisher: OECD
Keywords: incentives, work, systems, benefit
Number of Pages: 59
Published: 1998
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9264260730
ISBN-13: 9789264260733

Author: Barry Bosworth
Publisher: Brookings Institution Pre
Keywords: growth, economic, incentives, tax
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1984-09-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0815710356
ISBN-13: 9780815710356

Author: Tim Friehe
Publisher: Gabler
Keywords: settings, accident, incentives, precaution
Number of Pages: 187
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $64.15
ISBN-10: 3834912921
ISBN-13: 9783834912923

One central function of tort law is the inducement of precaution incentives. This is particularly welcome in settings in which the internalization of interdependencies between individuals relating to care and expected harm would otherwise not take effect due to high transaction costs broadly conceived, accident settings being a prime example. Tim Friehe analyzes important aspects for the design of tort law which intends to induce optimal individual choices and possible limitations of workable tort law in varied settings.

Author: A.J. Easson
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Keywords: investment, direct, foreign, incentives, tax
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2004-05-21
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 9041122281
ISBN-13: 9789041122285

There is unrelenting pressure, particularly on taxation authorities in developing and transition countries, to design tax incentives to attract foreign investment. Although experience shows that justification for the use of such incentives can be found only in limited circumstances, policy makers everywhere continue to confer tax benefits on investors in the hopes of achieving various economic objectives. In this widely-researched volume, a leading consultant and academic in the field of international taxation surveys the major forms of FDI tax incentives in theory and in practice. Although

Author: Donald E. Campbell
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: information, economics, motivation, incentives
Number of Pages: 604
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0521539749
ISBN-13: 9780521539746

This book examines the incentives at work in a wide range of institutions to see how and how well coordination is achieved by informing and motivating individual decision makers. The book examines the performance of agents hired to carry out specific tasks, from taxi drivers to CEOs. It investigates the performance of institutions, from voting schemes to kidney transplants, to see if they enhance general well being. The book examines a broad range of market transactions, from auctions to labor markets, to the entire economy. The analysis is conducted using specific worked examples, lucid gener