I. THE BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 R A. Classical Economics and Intellectual Property . . . . . . . 5 R B. Behavioral Challenges to the Rational Choice Model: The Endowment Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 R 1. The Strength of the Endowment Effect . ....

People often demand a greater price when selling goods that they own than they would pay to purchase the same goods-a well-known economic bias called the endowment effect. The endowment effect has been found to be muted among experienced traders, but little is known about how trading experience reduces the endowment effect. We show that when selling, experienced traders exhibit lower right ante...

The article discusses the concept of an endowment, highlights its stages. Based on analysis experience formation endowment capital Russian higher educational institutions, difficulties encountered by participants are formulated

BACKGROUND This research-based paper examined the Indonesian foundation and endowment laws in relation to educational and religious institutions which are managed under foundation legal structure. The institutions examined were: 1) The Pondok Pesantren al-Ansor Foundation in Padangsidimpuan City; 2) The Pesantren Dar al-Ma'arif Education Foundation in South Labuhanbatu Regency; and 3) ​The Masj...

come a time when the lecturer of the day will not have known him personally, hence it is the more a pious charge on those who have had the advantage of his friendship to commemorate his virtues. For they know well that Edward Long Fox was a man held in especial honour and affection by his medical brethren in this city and neighbourhood. Honoured for his wide culture and knowledge of his profess...

P opular opinion of medical missionaries has undergone wide swings during the last 2 centuries. Individuals who traveled far from home, often into dangerous territory to spread their religious faith in conjunction with medical care, have been both praised enthusiastically for their benevolent work, and castigated as pompous, presumptuous, and overly pious. Considering the enormous effect these ...

Parallel le systems employ data declustering to increase I/O throughput. As a result, a single read or write operation can generate concurrent data accesses on multiple storage devices. Unless a concurrency control mechanism is employed, familiar le access semantics are likely to be violated. This paper details the transaction-based concurrency control mechanism implemented in the PIOUS paralle...

John Harris has previously proposed that there is a moral duty to participate in scientific research. This concept has recently been challenged by Iain Brassington, who asserts that the principles cited by Harris in support of the duty to research fail to establish its existence. In this paper we address these criticisms and provide new arguments for the existence of a moral obligation to resea...