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Long-Run Effects Of The Accelerated Cost Recovery System, Don Fullerton, Yolanda K. Henderson Jul 1985

Long-Run Effects Of The Accelerated Cost Recovery System, Don Fullerton, Yolanda K. Henderson

Don Fullerton

No abstract provided.


Uncertainty And Policy Agressiveness, Douglas Steigerwald, Roger Craine Dec 1984

Uncertainty And Policy Agressiveness, Douglas Steigerwald, Roger Craine

Douglas G. Steigerwald

How should a decision maker proceed with uncertain knowledge of the decision outcome? We use the unknown coefficient control problem to shed light on the issue.


Learning, Preemption, And The Degree Of Rivalry, C Spatt, F Sterbenz Dec 1984

Learning, Preemption, And The Degree Of Rivalry, C Spatt, F Sterbenz

Fred P Sterbenz

We examine a model in which all firms receive common signals as to the uncertain profitability of an investment whose actual payoffs are split only among those who develop the project earliest. The benefit from preempting rivals yields an equilibrium reduction in the amount of learning and earlier development as the number of rivals increases. The set of equilibria shrinks as the number of rivals gets large, and in the limit only the competitive outcome occurs.


The Competition Of Technologies In Markets For Ideas: Copyright And Fair Use In Evolutionary Perspective (With Steven Peretz), Richard Adelstein Dec 1984

The Competition Of Technologies In Markets For Ideas: Copyright And Fair Use In Evolutionary Perspective (With Steven Peretz), Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A theory of intellectual goods as distinct from public or private goods, and the rationale for copyright that flows from it.