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The Indian Economy Since Liberalisation: the Structure and Composition of Exports and Industrial Transformation (1980 – 2000)

Sharma, Abhijit; Dietrich, Michael - EconWPA - 2005

This paper assesses empirically structural change in the Indian manufacturing based export sector, based on an analysis … technology and low technology) are examined individually and SITC product codes are used as proxies for export industries, in … order to look at industry movements within each of these groups. This analysis enables us to assess the export performance …

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Global Diseases, Global Patents and Differential Treatment in WTO Law

Sinha, Tapen; Condon, Bradly J - EconWPA - 2005

Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). We analyze the issue of access to patented medicine to treat global and … of developing countries in WTO law and apply this framework to TRIPS. We then propose a formula for assessing the correct …

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Relationship Specificity, Incomplete Contracts and the Pattern of Trade

Nunn, Nathan - EconWPA - 2005

When relationship-specific investments are necessary for production, under-investment occurs if contracts cannot be enforced. The efficiency loss from under-investment will differ across industries depending on the importance of relationship-specific investments in the production process. As a...

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Accession Countries’ Comparative Advantage in the Internal

Kaitila, Ville - EconWPA - 2002

We analyse trade between Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and the European Union during 1993-1998 using three methods. First, we calculate the share of intra-industry trade to determine the ex-tent to which two countries trade in similar products. Second, we calculate similarity...

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Competitive disadvantage through non-existing software patents

Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2004

In a model of sequential patent races, it is examined whether or not introducing a patent law in the home country is beneficial to the firms and the society as a whole given the foreign country already offers patent protection. Before the first patent race starts, the firms and the foreign...

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Evaluation of the Pharmaceutical Industry Investment Program

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

With the expiry of the Pharmaceutical Industry Investment Program (PIIP) in 2004, the Commission was asked to conduct an evaluation of the program’s rationale, effectiveness and efficiency. The study commenced in August 2002. The Commission found that this assistance scheme had significant...

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A TRAGEDY OF THE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE ‘COMMONS’? Global Science, Intellectual Property and the Digital Technology Boomerang

David, Paul A. - EconWPA - 2005

Radical legal innovations in intellectual property protection have been introduced by the little noticed European Database Directive of March 1996. This initiative, part of the larger institutional transformations initiated in response to the economic ramifications of rapid progress in digital...

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The Digital Technology Boomerang: New Intellectual Property Rights Threaten Global “Open Science”

David, Paul A. - EconWPA - 2005

There is a serious threat that ill-considered government support for expanding legal means of controlling access to information for the purpose of extracting private economic rents is resulting in the 'over- fencing of the public knowledge commons' in science and engineering. Such a new 'tragedy...

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Innovation, Inequality and Intellectual Property Rights

Weinhold, Diana; Reichert, Usha Nair- - EconWPA - 2004

The existing literature on the sources and nature of productivity growth during the early industrialization stages of U.S. has identified the combination of intellectual property rights (IPRs) with a large middle class and broad participation in markets as explanations for the extraordinary...

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Economic Growth with Imperfect Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

Horii, Ryo; Iwaisako, Tatsuro - EconWPA - 2005

The growth effects of intellectual property right (IPR) protection are examined in a quality-ladder model of endogenous growth. Stronger IPR protection, which reduces the probability of imitation, raises the reward for innovation. However, stronger protection reduces the number of competitive...

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