Evaluating the Economic Performance of Property Systems

James Bessen

Working Papers from Research on Innovation

Abstract: How should the economic performance of property systems be evaluated? Benefit-cost analysis is widely used to evaluate non-market based regulation when prices are not available. Market prices provide better information for property systems, but market prices are not necessarily socially optimal when property rights are imperfect. This paper discusses two practical approaches to evaluating the performance of property systems, one based on an analysis of institutional performance, the other based on measuring incentives. As an illustration, I show how these approaches might be used to evaluate the US patent system.

Keywords: property; markets; externalities; regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K11 K42 L14 L51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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