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- Organization: (roughly) material is organized by subject matter then by time of update with the most recent first.
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Knowledge Production, Innovation and Intellectual Property
Forever Minus a Day? Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright Term
- Last Updated: 2008-05 (created: 2008-01). ~NEW~
- Link: Forever Minus a Day? Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright Term (pdf).
- Slides: Slides from a talk at Stanford
- Comments: a very* revised version of the second half of the original ‘Forever Minus a Day’ paper focused exclusively on copyright term.
Models of Public Sector Information Provision via Trading Funds
- Published: 2008-03-12 by BERR (UK Government Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform)
- Link: Models of Public Sector Information Provision via Trading Funds (pdf)
- This report was commissioned by HM Treasury and BERR and jointly written by myself, Professor Newbery (Cambridge University Economics Department) and Professor Bently (Cambridge University Law Department/CIPIL). For more details see the blog post
Optimal Copyright over Time: Technological Change and the Stock of Works
- Published: 2007-12 in Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues.
- Link: Optimal Copyright over Time: Technological Change and the Stock of Works (pdf, local copy)
- Comments: a revised version of the first half of the original ‘Forever Minus a Day’ paper.
The Economics of Knowledge: A Review of the Theoretical Literature
- Last Updated: 2007-10 (created 2007-04).
- Link: The Economics of Knowledge: A Review of the Theoretical Literature
- Abstract: A selective review of the existing theoretical literature related to the economics of knowledge with particular attention to intellectual property, especially in the form of patents.
Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright
- Last Updated: 2008-01 (created: 2007-01).
- Link: Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright (pdf).
- There are also Slides from the presentation of ‘Forever Minus a Day?’ at SERCIAC 2007 (pdf).
Cumulative Innovation, Sampling and the Hold-up Problem
- Last Updated: 2007-08-10 (created: 2006-06-19).
- Link: Cumulative Innovation, Sampling and the Hold-up Problem (pdf)
Innovation and Imitation with and without Intellectual Property Rights
- Last Updated: 2007-07-17 (created: 2006-12-19).
- Link: Innovation and Imitation with and without Intellectual Property Rights (pdf).
The Value of the Public Domain
- Published: 2006-07-14 by the Institute for Public Policy Research as part of the their series on IP and the Public Sphere.
- Link: The Value of the Public Domain (pdf) (local copy and an html version).
P2P, Online File-Sharing, and the Music Industry: A Summary of the Literature
- Last Updated: 2007-11-07 (created: 2005-11).
- Link: P2P, Online File-Sharing, and the Music Industry: A Summary of the Literature
The Importance of Patents for Innovation in the Industrial Revolution
- Last Updated: 2004-04.
- Link: The Importance of Patents for Innovation in the Industrial Revolution (html) (pdf version)
- Comments: MPhil Essay in Economic History.
Network Effects and Two-Sided Markets
Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and Regulation in Internet Search
- Last Updated: 2008-05 (created: 2008-04). ~NEW~
- Link: Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and Regulation in Internet Search (pdf)
The Control of Porting in Two-Sided Markets
- Last Updated: 2008-02 (created: 2007-02).
- Link: The Control of Porting (v2.0) (pdf). A significantly updated and revised version of the original paper.
- 2005-07 (revised 2006-09): The Control of Porting (v1.0) (pdf)
To Be Compatible or Not To Be Compatible: Strategy and Compatibility Choice in Network Markets with Special Attention to Microsoft
- Last Updated: 2004-07.
- Link: To Be Compatible or Not To Be Compatible: Strategy and Compatibility Choice in Network Markets with Special Attention to Microsoft (pdf) (xml src version)
- MPhil Dissertation.
General Interest
- 2005-08: The Fixed Cost Fallacy. General essay.
- 2005-04 (Revised 2006-01): Setting the Defaults for Intellectual Property Policy
- 2003: Why Politicians are Dishonest (pdf)
- 2003: Policy Change and the UK Housing Market (pdf). All associated source files (data, code and .tex) may be found in housing/.
