Both public policy and business management are increasingly interested in how to manage trade secrets. One of the driving forces is growing significance data as an asset, ‘oil 21st century'. Trade secrets often seen major Intellectual Property (IP) tool for protecting data. There also understanding that need share increasing allow new types innovation. This paper seeks understand sharing practi...

This paper analyzes the joint design of fiscal and cap-and-trade instruments in climate policies under uncertainty. Whether the optimal mechanism is a mixed policy (with some firms subject to a tax and others to a cap-and-trade) or a uniform one (with all firms subject to the same instrument) depends on parameters reflecting preferences, production, and, most importantly, the stochastic structu...

The initial allocation of tradable carbon emission allowances is among the most contentious issues in developing an emission trading scheme (ETS). China faces serious dilemmas of system complexity and information incompleteness and asymmetry in allocating carbon allowance among enterprises. As one of the pilot ETS regions, Shenzhen has launched the first regional cap-and-trade ETS (SZ ETS) in C...

Increasingly the practice of computing involves legal issues. Patenting algorithms, domain name poaching, downloading MP3 files, and "re-using" HTML and graphics from web sites all raise questions in the domain of intellectual property law (which includes patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and trademarks). In the classroom, computer science educators often confront questions that have legal ra...

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 235 I. UNHEALTHY SECRETS: PROPRIETARY PRICES AND ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD IMPLEMENTATION ......... 239 II. TRADE SECRECY AS A BUSINESS TOOL IN THE SEARCH INDUSTRY .................................................................................. 244 III. CLANDESTINELY COMMENSURATING COMPUTING IN CO...

We examine the pattern of allowance trades in European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) using highly disaggregated trading data and identify a significant robust home market bias. Our results point to informational transactions costs that increase when across national borders. The existing trade goods services explains two thirds bias, with remainder due other causes. finding suggests fi...