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We study the positive and normative effects of counterfeiting, i.e.,trademark infringement, in markets where consumers … counterfeiting: enforcement policy which increases the likelihood of confiscation of illegal items, and the imposition of a tariff on …
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Focusing on 8 drug types on the WHO-approved medicine list, we constructed an original dataset of 899 drug samples from 17 low- and median-income countries and tested them for visual appearance, disintegration, and analyzed their ingredients by chromatography and spectrometry. Fifteen percent of...
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heterogeneous impacts of counterfeiting on the sales and consumer purchase intent related to branded products of various quality …
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counterfeiting, the proposed methodology improves the estimation of dynamic effects under heterogeneous response times by firms. We …
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under competition with non-deceptive counterfeiting and deceptive counterfeiting, respectively, as well as under monopoly … branding. A key theoretical prediction is that emerging markets can be self-corrective with respect to counterfeiting issues in …
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principles of microeconomic theory and uses aggregated product-level data to estimate counterfeiting activities in various … firm operating in 16 countries during the period 2006-2011. Our models predict larger amounts of counterfeiting in … countries with higher corruption norms, lower government control and effectiveness. Predictions of the level of counterfeiting …
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Following the Global Pharma Health Fund e.V. Minilab® protocol, we find 9.88% of samples have less than 80% of the correct active ingredient and 41.5% of these failures are counterfeits. Both product registration and chain affiliation of retailers are strong indicators of higher probability to...
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In this paper I provide a theory for brand-protection strategies to reduce counterfeiting under weak intellectual …
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"This paper analyzes job flows in a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade, exploiting a harmonized firm-level dataset. It shows that industry and firm size effects (and especially firm size) account for a large fraction in the overall variability in job flows....
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