Executive summary. My research explores, challenges, and extends our understanding of auctions and other strategic interactions between buyers and sellers. Auctions have been studied intensively for decades, but my work has pushed the envelope in several new and interesting ways, notably: (i) to lay the foundation for theoretical and empirical studies of “multi-unit auctions” (funded by 2003-20...

The concept of quality of life currently impacts program development, service delivery, management strategies, and outcome evaluation in the area of intellectual disabilities. Maryland uses peer interviewers to assess consumer-perceived quality of life among adult recipients of MR/DD services and supports. In this article we describe the survey instrument and procedures and discuss assessment i...

EFFECTS Effect representing class of specific effects named abstract effect (AE). All kinds of specific effects (SE) can be collected into classes of AE. It is true not only for effects but for different kinds of information from literature in general. Any types of documents from different fields can be classified by extracting of different kinds of AE from them. Let’s analyze effect of change ...

We focus on downstream uses that combine multiple intellectual property rights and examine the e¤ects of introducing an intellectual property clearinghouse. We identify the two sometimes con‡icting function of clearinhouses: transaction costs reduction and coordination. We show that reduction in transaction costs causes licensors to increase royalties in some cases and makes them worse o¤ due t...

We develop a theory of control rights in the context of licensing interim innovative knowledge for further development, which is consistent with the inalienability of initial innovator’s intellectual property rights (IPR). Control rights of a downstream development unit, a buyer of the interim innovation, arise from his ability to prevent the upstream research unit from forming …nancial coaliti...

Patent pendencies create uncertainty in research and development (R&D) collaboration agreements, resulting in a threat of expropriation of unprotected knowledge by potential partners, reduced bargaining power and enhanced search costs. In this paper, we show that depending of the type of partner uncertain intellectual property rights (IPR) lead to reduced collaboration between firms and may hin...

The definition of intellectual disability, according to the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, includes the assumption that adequate supports should improve a person's functioning. Consequently, support needs have to be assessed to plan services for persons with intellectual disability. The Supports Intensity Scale (SIS; J. R. Thompson et al., 2004) is a standa...