Two-Dimensional Effort in Patent-Race Games and Rent-Seeking Contests: The Case of Telephony
Using the political-economic history of the development of telephony during the 1870s as a backdrop, this paper studies a two-player Tullock contest that includes both research effort (R&D) and legal effort (i.e., rent-seeking effort). The two types of efforts complement each other and posit...
Main Authors: | João Ricardo Faria, Franklin G. Mixon, Jr., Steven B. Caudill, Samantha J. Wineke |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2014-05-01
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Series: | Games |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/5/2/116 |
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