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  • March 20, 2019
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  • Malaspina, Peter
    • College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
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  • The following chapters cover theoretical and empirical investigations into issues of intellectual property. The first chapter examines predatory behavior in patent litigation. I develop a signaling model where the timing of litigation against an initial act of infringement transmits noisy signals about a patent holder's private expectations of litigation awards. I find a non-monotonic relationship between a patent holder's award expectation and the timing of litigation. Patent holders with sufficiently high award expectations will exhibit predatory behavior by delaying litigation to lure infringers. At the same time, patent holders with moderate award expectations will litigate quickly to deter additional acts of infringement. The second chapter (co-authored with Dr. David Molin) examines the economic consequences of the reduction in the fixed costs of distribution due to the emergence of the Internet and information technology. Others have examined the effects of increasing product variety on consumer welfare, in bookselling and in other markets. We identify a set of books sold on Amazon.com for which the author's revenue can be computed. We use this data to parameterize a model of author entry and then estimate the welfare gains of authors and consumers from Print-on-Demand (POD) technology.
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  • Tauchen, Helen
  • McManus, Brian
  • Parreiras, Sergio
  • Norman, Peter
  • Biglaiser, Gary
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  • Doctor of Philosophy
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
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  • 2011
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  • April 26, 2017

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