Trademark Protection and Corporate Leasing: Evidence From a Quasi‐Natural Experiment
Does protection of trademark‐related intangible capital affect firms’ real contracting decisions? We exploit the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1996 (FTDA) as a plausibly exogenous strengthening of legal protection to answer the question. In a difference‐in‐differences design using a propensity‐score‐matched sampl...