Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Bargaining in the shadow of precedent: the surprising irrelevance of asymmetric stakes

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2006-April-12
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We develop a model of bargaining and litigation in the context of patent licensing (or any contractual setting). Following Priest and Klein (1984) we developed a model that explicitly allows for (1) multiple parties (leading to asymmetry of stakes), (2)...

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Credibility and credulity: how beliefs about beliefs affect entry incentives

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2006-November-13
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In this note we investigate the infringement (entry) decision for a firm facing an incumbent patent holder with uncertain patent rights. The entrant risks a dispute by entering, resulting in either a settlement (licensing) or litigation and trial. Using the...

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Digital Art and the Museum

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2015-January-01
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Digital art faces challenges that non-digital art does not. Technology is mercurial, and digital art is always in danger of its platform becoming obsolete. It is, at its most basic form, information which can be transferred and viewed across different...

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村上春樹の短編集「中国行きへのスロウ・ボート」の英訳:「中国行きへ のスロウ・ボート」、「貧乏な叔母さんの話」、「ニューヨークの炭鉱の 悲劇」 A Select English Translation of Murakami Haruki’s Short Story Collection “A Slow Boat to China”: “A Slow Boat to China”, “A Poor Aunt Story,” and “New York Mining Disaster”

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2022-April-01
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