Economic and Legal Issues in Competition, Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy, and the Cost of Raising Children

James Langenfeld

ISBN 10: 1785605631 / ISBN 13: 9781785605635

Published by Emerald Publishing Limited, GB, 2015

About this Item

This volume addresses a variety of topics where economic concepts are intertwined with important legal and policy issues in North America and Europe. Five articles involve analyses of competition issues, including economic plus factors in price fixing cases, the impact of refusals to deal on product quality, and market definition for intermediate goods. There are also articles on legal -cost allocation and patent hold ups, the strategic use of licensing commitments, and cost sharing's impact on bankruptcy. Finally, there is a very detailed empirical analysis of the monetary cost of raising children, which has implications for policies of the United States Department of Agriculture.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Economic and Legal Issues in Competition, Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy, and the Cost of Raising Children
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, GB
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785605631
• ISBN 13: 9781785605635
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.24W x 1.6H x 22.86D centimeters 15.24 centimeters width by 1.6 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 666 grams

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Synopsis

This volume addresses a variety of topics where economic concepts are intertwined with important legal and policy issues in North America and Europe. Five articles involve analyses of competition issues, including economic plus factors in price fixing cases, the impact of refusals to deal on product quality, and market definition for intermediate goods. There are also articles on legal -cost allocation and patent hold ups, the strategic use of licensing commitments, and cost sharing's impact on bankruptcy. Finally, there is a very detailed empirical analysis of the monetary cost of raising children, which has implications for policies of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Review

Economists address situations in which economics concepts are intertwined with legal and policy issues in North America and Europe. Among the topics are refusal to deal and investment in product quality, Hicks-Marshall conditions and defining antitrust markets for intermediate goods, different rules of legal-cost allocation and patent holdup, the strategic use of licensing commitments in a standardization context, cost sharing and bankruptcy law orientation, and the monetary cost of raising children. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Annotation ©2016 Ringgold Inc. Portland, OR (protoview.com)