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| Author: | Anton, J. Yao, D. |
| Title: | Expropriation and inventions: appropriable rents in the absence of property rights |
| Journal: | American Economic Review
1994 : MAR, VOL. 84:1, p. 190-209 |
| Index terms: | RENTS PROPERTY RIGHTS EXPROPRIATION |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The authors analyze the problem faced by a financially weak independent inventor when selling a valuable, but easily imitated, invention for which no property rights exist. The inventor can protect his or her intellectual property by negotiating a contingent contract (with a buyer) prior to revealing the invention or, alternatively, the inventor can reveal the invention and then negotiate with the newly informed buyer. Despite the risk expropriation, the authors find that, in equilibrium, an inventor with little wealth can expect to appropriate a sizable share of the market value of the invention by adopting the latter approach. |
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