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What's A Name Worth?: Experimental Tests Of The Value Of Attribution In Intellectual Property, Christopher J. Buccafusco, Christopher Jon Sprigman, Zachary C. Burns
What's A Name Worth?: Experimental Tests Of The Value Of Attribution In Intellectual Property, Christopher J. Buccafusco, Christopher Jon Sprigman, Zachary C. Burns
All Faculty Scholarship
Despite considerable research suggesting that creators value attribution – i.e., being named as the creator of a work – U.S. intellectual property (IP) law does not provide a right to attribution to the vast majority of creators. On the other side of the Atlantic, however, many European countries give creators, at least in their copyright laws, much stronger rights to attribution. At first blush it may seem that the U.S. has gotten it wrong, and the Europeans have made a better policy choice in providing to creators a right that they value. But for reasons we will explain in this …
Experimental Evidence Of Tax Salience And The Labor-Leisure Decision: Anchoring, Tax Aversion, Or Complexity?, Andrew Hayashi, Brent K, Nakamura, David Gamage
Experimental Evidence Of Tax Salience And The Labor-Leisure Decision: Anchoring, Tax Aversion, Or Complexity?, Andrew Hayashi, Brent K, Nakamura, David Gamage
Andrew Hayashi
Recent research in marketing and public economics suggests that consumers underestimate the effects of taxes and surcharges on total purchase prices when taxes and surcharges are made less salient. The leading explanation is that consumers anchor on base prices and underadjust for surcharges. We perform experiments that: (1) extend the tax salience and price partitioning literatures to the labor supply context; (2) test the anchoring hypothesis by examining the effects of positive and negative wage surcharges on willingness to work; and (3) test whether responses to price partitioning result from imperfect calculation of all-inclusive prices or from deeper preferences. We …
Empirical Studies Of Contract, Zev J. Eigen
Empirical Studies Of Contract, Zev J. Eigen
Faculty Working Papers
Since the mid 2000s, a cottage industry has slowly blossomed of empirical research dedicated to advancing accounts of contracts "on the books"--accounting for what contracts tend to purportedly obligate signers to do, and contracts "in action"--accounting for how contracting parties tend to behave. This article reviews this literature, which spans several disciplines, most notably law, economics, and management, identifying eight categories of empirical questions in common across all disciplines, highlighting key findings, points of consensus, and noting areas most pressingly in need of additional research.