Ivan P. L. Png

National University of Singapore (NUS)

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Singapore, 117543

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1.

Piracy and the Legitimate Demand for Recorded Music

National U. of Singapore, School of Computing
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 16 Apr 2001
Kai-Lung Hui and Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS) - School of Computing and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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music, copyright, pricing

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Economics of Privacy

HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND ECONOMICS, Terry Hendershott, ed., Elsevier, June 2005
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 23 Aug 2005
Kai-Lung Hui and Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS) - School of Computing and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Privacy

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Trade Secrets Law and Mobility: Evidence from 'Inevitable Disclosure'

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 18 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2015
Ivan P. L. Png and Sampsa Samila
National University of Singapore (NUS) and University of Navarra, IESE Business School
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trade secrets, inevitable dislosure, covenant not to compete, professional mobility

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Software Pricing and Copyright: Enforcement Against End-Users

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 Jun 1999
Ivan P. L. Png and Yeh-Ning Chen
National University of Singapore (NUS) and National Taiwan University - Department of Finance
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Law and Innovation: Evidence from State Trade Secrets Laws

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 04 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2014
Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS)
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trade secrets, manufacturing

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Copyright: A Plea for Empirical Research

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Copyright: A Plea for Empirical Research

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 20 Sep 2006
Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS)
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copyright, empirical

Copyright: A Plea for Empirical Research

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 3-13, 2006
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 16 Jun 2008
Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Copyright

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Location of U.S. Manufacturing, 1987-2014: A New Dataset

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 28 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2019
Xi Xiong and Ivan P. L. Png
LinkedIn Corporation and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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manufacturing, locations

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Sarft Regulation 17 and China's Beer Market

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 23 Aug 2005
Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Advertising, regulation, beer, China

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Copyright Duration and the Supply of Creative Work

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Sep 2006
Ivan P. L. Png and Qiu-Hong Wang
National University of Singapore (NUS) and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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copyright, empirical, movies, duration

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Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets: Evidence from Singapore

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Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets: Evidence from Singapore

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2019
Sumit Agarwal, Jia He, Haoming Liu, Ivan P. L. Png, Tien Foo Sing and Wei-Kang Wong
National University of Singapore, Nankai University, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Economics, National University of Singapore (NUS), National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Real Estate and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Economics
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Superstition, conspicuous spending, real estate, prices, behavioral economics

Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets: Evidence from Singapore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9899
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 Apr 2016
Sumit Agarwal, Jia He, Haoming Liu, Ivan P. L. Png, Tien Foo Sing and Wei-Kang Wong
National University of Singapore, Nankai University, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Economics, National University of Singapore (NUS), National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Real Estate and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Economics
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superstition, conspicuous spending, real estate, prices, behavioral economics

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Patent Rights and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Panels of Manufacturing Industries

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 09 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2013
Albert G. Z. Hu and Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Economics and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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patents, growth, manufacturing, productivity

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On the Reliability of Software Piracy Statistics

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 28 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 14 May 2014
Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS)
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copyright, piracy, software

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On the Value of Privacy from Telemarketing: Evidence from the 'Do Not Call' Registry

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 22 Jul 2007
Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS)
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privacy, telemarketing, do not call

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Engineer/Scientist Careers: Patents, Online Profiles, and Misclassification Bias

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Engineer/Scientist Careers: Patents, Online Profiles, and Misclassification Bias

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 02 Dec 2014
Chunmian Ge, Ke-Wei Huang and Ivan P. L. Png
South China University of Technology, National University of Singapore - Department of Information Systems and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Engineer/scientist careers; patents; LinkedIn; misclassification

Engineer/Scientist Careers: Patents, Online Profiles, and Misclassification Bias

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 05 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2020
Chunmian Ge, Ke-Wei Huang and Ivan P. L. Png
South China University of Technology, National University of Singapore - Department of Information Systems and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Engineer/scientist careers, patents, online career network, misclassification

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Kinship, Control, and Incentives

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 26 Dec 1998
Chu-Chia S. Lin and Ivan P. L. Png
National Chengchi University (NCCU) - Department of Economics and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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When stronger patent law reduces patenting: Empirical evidence

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 13 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2022
Yun Hou, Ivan P. L. Png and Xi Xiong
HKUST(GZ), National University of Singapore (NUS) and LinkedIn Corporation
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strategic patents, entry, patent law

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Secrecy and Patents: Theory and Evidence from the Uniform Trade Secrets Act

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 12 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2017
Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS)
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patents, trade secrets, innovation

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Sales and Promotions: A More General Model

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Aug 2005
Il-Horn Hann, Kai-Lung Hui, Sang-Yong Tom Lee and Ivan P. L. Png
University of Maryland - Decision and Information Technologies Department, National University of Singapore (NUS) - School of Computing, Hanyang University - School of Business and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Competition, pricing, customer acquisition

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Parallel Imports and Music Cd Prices

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 10 Feb 2004
Yeh-Ning Chen and Ivan P. L. Png
National Taiwan University - Department of Finance and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Parallel imports, gray markets, price discrimination

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Buyer Switching Costs and Retail Pricing: An Indirect Empirical Test

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 03 Feb 2004
Sang-Yong Tom Lee and Ivan P. L. Png
Hanyang University - School of Business and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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pricing, retailing, loss leaders, switching costs

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Returns Policies and Retail Price Competition

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 03 Feb 2004
Paddy Padmanabhan and Ivan P. L. Png
INSEAD and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Channels, returns, competition, pricing

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China's Quiet Export: Children

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 23 Aug 2005
Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS)
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China, adoption

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On the Supply of Creative Work: Evidence from the Movies

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On the Supply of Creative Work: Evidence from the Movies

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 18 Jan 2002
Kai-Lung Hui and Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS) - School of Computing and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Copyright, movie, economic incentives

On the Supply of Creative Work: Evidence from the Movies

Posted: 03 May 2002
Kai-Lung Hui and Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS) - School of Computing and National University of Singapore (NUS)

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Copyright, movie, economic incentives

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Early-life exposure to hardship increased risk tolerance and entrepreneurship in adulthood with gender differences

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 05 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2022
Junjian Yi, Junhong Chu and Ivan P. L. Png
Peking University, HKU Business School and National University of Singapore (NUS)
Downloads 220 (230,894)
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Entrepreneurship; Hardship; Gender difference; Conditioning; Risk attitudes; China’s Great Famine

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Sunk Cost Fallacy in Driving the World's Costliest Cars

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 11 May 2013 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2014
Teck Ho, Ivan P. L. Png and Sadat Reza
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, National University of Singapore (NUS) and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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automobile, sunk costs, mental accounting, behavioral economics

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When Things Were Falling Apart: Tocqueville, Fei Xiaotong and the Agrarian Causes of the Chinese Revolution

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 05 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2019
Xiaohong Xu, Ivan P. L. Png, Junhong Chu and Yeh-Ning Chen
Lingnan University - Department of Sociology and Social Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS), HKU Business School and National Taiwan University - Department of Finance
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Revolution, State Building, Social Change, Agrarian Societies, China, Communism, Tocqueville, Fei Xiaotong

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Automation Enables Specialization: Field Evidence

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2023
Jie Gong and Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS) and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Automation; Job design; Task specialization; Productivity

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Do Institutions Not Matter in China? Evidence from Manufacturing Enterprises

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 May 2008 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2010
Yi Lu, Ivan P. L. Png and Zhigang Tao
School of Business, University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore (NUS) and The University of Hong Kong - School of Business
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institutions, law, property rights, China, growth

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Privacy, Trust in Banks, and Use of Cash

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 24 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2020
Ivan P. L. Png and Charmaine H.Y. Tan
National University of Singapore (NUS) and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Cash, privacy, trust, banks

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Privacy and Marketing Externalities: Evidence from Do Not Call

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 12 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2014
Khim Yong Goh, Kai-Lung Hui and Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - School of Business and Management and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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privacy externalities, marketing do not call

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Trade Secrets Laws and Inventory Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2012
Jie Gong and Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS) and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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trade secrets, inventory, operation efficiency

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Monitoring Costs and the Mode of International Investment

National University of Singapore
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Oct 2002
Chu-Chia S. Lin and Ivan P. L. Png
National Chengchi University (NCCU) - Department of Economics and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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contract, vertical integration, opportunism, international investment, China

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Installment Payments in Contracts for Systems Development

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Oct 1999
Ivan P. L. Png and Zhigang Tao
National University of Singapore (NUS) and The University of Hong Kong - School of Business
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Law, Social Responsibility, and Outsourcing

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2016
Qiang Fu, Jie Gong and Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS), National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Business Policy and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Law, corporate social responsibility, outsourcing, vertical integration

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The Deterrent and Displacement Effects of Information Security Enforcement: International Evidence

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 03 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2008
Ivan P. L. Png, Chen-yu Wang and Qiu-Hong Wang
National University of Singapore (NUS), National University of Singapore (NUS) - School of Computing and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Information security, attacks, enforcement, unemployment, economics

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Cost of Cash: Evidence from Cashiers

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 17 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2021
Ivan P. L. Png and Charmaine H.Y. Tan
National University of Singapore (NUS) and National University of Singapore (NUS)
Downloads 92 (461,830)
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Stress, Compensating wage differential, Payments, Cash

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Responsible Sourcing - Production Scale and Monitoring: Theory and Evidence

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 01 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
Qiang Fu, Jie Gong, Hsiao-Hui Lee and Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS), National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Business Policy, National Chengchi University (NCCU) - Department of Management Information Systems and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Production Scale, Social Responsibility, Supply Chain Incentives

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Newspaper Reports and Consumer Choice: Evidence from the Do Not Call Registry

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2014
Khim Yong Goh, Kai-Lung Hui and Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - School of Business and Management and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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newspaper, publicity, do not call

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Divorce and Age of Marriage: Evidence from China's Heating Policy

Chu, Junhong, Haoming Liu, and I.P.L Png, "Nonlabor Income and Age at Marriage: Evidence From China’s Heating Policy", Demography , Vol. 55 No. 6, December 2018, 2345-2370 .
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2020
Junhong Chu, Haoming Liu and Ivan P. L. Png
HKU Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Economics and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Age at marriage, Divorce, Regression discontinuity, Instrumental variables, China

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Who Makes the Law? Political Economy Analysis and Evidence from Copyright Levies

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2011
Ke-Wei Huang and Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore - Department of Information Systems and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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median voter, political economy, copyright

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Digital Divide? Evidence from a Federal Natural Experiment

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 02 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2014
Kai-Lung Hui and Ivan P. L. Png
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - School of Business and Management and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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digital divide

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Sunk Cost Fallacy in Driving the World’s Costliest Cars

Teck-Hua Ho, I. P. L. Png, Sadat Reza (2018) Sunk Cost Fallacy in Driving the World’s Costliest Cars. Management Science. 64(4):1761-1778. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2651, Nanyang Business School Research Paper No. 20-20
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 13 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2021
Teck-Hua Ho, Ivan P. L. Png and Sadat Reza
National University of Singapore (NUS), National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University
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sunk costs; mental accounting; behavioral economics

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Temperature, precipitation and sunshine across China, 1912‐51: A new daily instrumental dataset

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 25 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2020
Ivan P. L. Png, Yeh-Ning Chen, Junhong Chu, Yikang Feng, Elaine Kuan-hui Lin and Wan-ling Tseng
National University of Singapore (NUS), National Taiwan University - Department of Finance, HKU Business School, Independent, National Taiwan Normal University and Academia Sinica
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Meteorology, China, Data rescue

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U.S. R&D, 1975-1998: A New Dataset

I.P.L. Png, "U.S. R&D, 1975-1998: A New Dataset", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 40 no. 5, May 2019, 715-735.
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 Aug 2019
Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS)
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R&D, U.S.

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Non-Labor Income and the Age of Marriage: Evidence from China's Heating Policy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11754
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 17 Sep 2018
Junhong Chu, Haoming Liu and Ivan P. L. Png
HKU Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Economics and National University of Singapore (NUS)
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age at marriage, regression discontinuity, non-labor income, China

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The Federal Circuit Enriched Patent Owners Without Eliciting Better Inventions

Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal, Vol. 31 No. 2, Spring 2023, 295-326
Posted: 28 Sep 2023
Yun Hou, Ivan P. L. Png and Xi Xiong
HKUST(GZ), National University of Singapore (NUS) and New York University (NYU), Department of Economics, Students

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Patents, law, commercial value, technological quality

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Facilitation of Competing Bids and the Price of a Takeover Target

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 587-606, 1989
Posted: 01 Dec 2008
Ivan P. L. Png and David A. Hirshleifer
National University of Singapore (NUS) and Marshall School of Business, USC

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Damage Measures for Inadvertant Breach of Contract

International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 19, 1999
Posted: 29 Mar 2000
Ivan P. L. Png and Lucian A. Bebchuk
National University of Singapore (NUS) and Harvard Law School

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Automation Enables Specialization: Field Evidence

Management Science
Jie Gong and Ivan P. L. Png
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Business Policy and National University of Singapore (NUS)

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Automation, Job design, Task specialization, Productivity

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Stronger patent law increases the allocation of resources to external relative to internal R&D: Empirical evidence

Number of pages: 52
Yun Hou, Ivan P. L. Png and Xi Xiong
HKUST(GZ), National University of Singapore (NUS) and New York University (NYU), Department of Economics, Students
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External R&D, Appropriability, Innovation, Technology, Patent law