The strategy of raising counterfeiters’ costs in luxury markets
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Keywords
Counterfeiting; Fines; Intellectual property rights; Raising rivals’ costs; D21; D23; D42;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
- D42 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Monopoly
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