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OPINION article Front. Environ. Sci., 07 June 2023Sec. Environmental Economics and Management Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1216472

We study the spatial distribution of effect oil and gas revenues on Brazilian municipalities, using variations in international prices to establish causality. Those increase nighttime light emissions oil-producing municipalities but impose negative spillovers neighboring especially those located more than 150 kilometers from activities. The two effects cancel out at level microregions. In royal...

This paper generalizes the two-period model of Watt (2000) who demonstrates the possibility of optimal accommodation of a pirate when the royalty rate applying to a creation is uniform and second-period Cournot competition applies. Admitting nonlinear contracts with period-specific royalty rates that leave total payments unchanged, simulation analysis shows that a producer of originals does bet...

We analyze patent licensing by a patent holder to downstream technology users. We study how the structure and level of royalties depends on the patent’s strength, i.e., the probability it would be upheld in court. We examine the social value of determining patent validity before licensing, in terms of deadweight loss (ex post) and innovation incentives (ex ante). When downstream users do not co...