The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, industrial innovation, and real option creation
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Keywords
Innovation; Patents; Sarbanes-Oxley; Regulation; Real options;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
- G38 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Government Policy and Regulation
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-INO-2013-08-31 (Innovation)
- NEP-IPR-2013-08-31 (Intellectual Property Rights)
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