Durante dos décadas seguidas, las del '80 y el '90, la Argentina experimentó como procesos paralelos y tal vez asociados, el crecimiento de sus tasas de desempleo y el incremento de la actividad criminal. Este estado de cosas parecería demostrar,…
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Professor Calabresi and Mr. Melamed develop a framework for legal analysis which they believe serves to integrate various legal relationships which are traditionally analyzed in separate subject areas such as Property and Torts. By using their model…
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An important new research program has developed in economics that extends neoclassical economic theory in order to examine the effects of institutions on economic behavior. The body of work emerging from this new line of inquiry includes…
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We examine self-control problems-modeled as time-inconsistent, present-biased preferences-in a model where a person must do an activity exactly once. We emphasize two distinctions: Do activities involve immediate costs or immediate rewards, and are…
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This paper examines whether the Solow growth model is consistent with the international variation in the standard of living. It shows that an augmented Solow model that includes accumulation of human as well as physical capital provides an excellent…
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This paper is concerned with those actions of business firms which have harmful effects on others. The standard example is that of a factory the smoke from which has harmful effects on those occupying neighboring properties. The economic analysis of…
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Does a stronger intellectual property rights regime lead to the faster diffusion of new products and technology? While there is a presumption that this is the case, our analysis of data on the international release patterns of Hollywood movies…
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Introduces the expression the invisible hand to demonstrate how capitalists inadvertently brought about social benefits even though their real intentions were the pursuit of self-interest
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Behavioral economics has been a growing force in many fields of applied economics, including public economics, labor economics, health economics, and law and economics. This paper describes and assesses the current state of behavioral law and…
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Courts and scholars have increasingly assumed that intellectual property is a form of property, and have applied the economic insights of Harold Demsetz and other property theorists to condemn the use of intellectual property by others as "free…
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Property institutions fundamentally shape a society. These legal relationships between individuals, different sorts of objects, and the state are not easy to justify. This is especially true of intellectual property. It is difficult enough to…
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Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do NotIn 1982, James Q. Wilson and George Kelling suggested in an influential article in the Atlantic Monthly that targeting minor disorder could help reduce more serious crime. More than twenty years later, the three most populous cities in the United…
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Discusses the desireability of property or liability rights when considering harmful exxternalities and possessory interests in things. Concludes that different rights may be more effecient in different aspects of these contexts.
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This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It introduces and employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates by averaging OLS…
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We have recently characterized cDNAs and genomic DNA fragments for human type I cGMP-dependent protein kinase (cGK). By probing human x hamster hybrid cell lines with a 1.2-kb intron fragment from the human type I cGK gene, we identified a 5.9-kb…
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D Anticommons problems are the consequence of symmetric structural departures from a unified conception of property. In this paper, we endeavor to provide a dual model of property, where commons and anticommons problems are the consequence of a lack…
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The rise of Western Europe after 1500 is due largely to growth in countries with access to the Atlantic Ocean and with substantial trade with the New World, Africa, and Asia via the Atlantic. This trade and the associated colonialism affected Europe…
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This paper discusses a conflict between private defence firms and government procurement agencies related to Intellectual Property management issues that emerged during the privatization process of the main UK defence research establishment. Our…
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A review of the literature suggests that few studies use formative indicator measurement models, even though they should. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to (a) discuss the distinction between formative and reflective measurement models,…
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