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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT
Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2000
protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471281
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Are National Patent Laws the Blossoming Rain?
Qian, Yi - 2010
By thoroughly controlling for the country covariates, through a combination of matched sampling techniques with fixed-effect panel regression models, the analyses arrive at robust results across the various model specifications. First, national pharmaceutical patent protection alone does not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462357
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The Dual Effects of Intellectual Property Regulations : Within- and Between- Patent Competition in the US Pharmaceuticals Industry
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2002
A patent only protects an innovator from others producing the same product, but it does not protect him from others producing better products under new patents. Therefore, one may divide up the source of competition facing an innovator into within-patent competition, which results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469403
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The Introduction of Pharmaceutical Product Patents in India : "Heartless Exploitation of the Poor and Suffering"?
Lanjouw, Jean O. - 1998
. Using India as an example, it then brings together information gathered from both published sources and personal interviews …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472451
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China and India as Suppliers of Affordable Medicines to Developing Countries
Hafner, Tamara - 2011
pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … medicines from high- income countries. We find that imports of antibiotics and unspecified medicaments from India and China … significantly depress the average price of these commodities imported from high-income trading partners, suggesting that India and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461408
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Poor Quality Drugs and Global Trade : A Pilot Study
Bate, Roger - 2014
tuberculosis drug samples that claim to be made in India and were sold in Africa, India, and five mid-income non-African countries … in India or non-African countries. Since this finding is robust for manufacturer-drug fixed effects, one likely … explanation is that Indian pharmaceutical firms and/or their export intermediaries do indeed differentiate drug quality according …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458199
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Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution
Juhász, Réka; Sakabe, Shogo; Weinstein, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies technology absorption worldwide in the late nineteenth century. We construct several novel datasets to test the idea that the codification of technical knowledge in the vernacular was necessary for countries to absorb the technologies of the Industrial Revolution. We find that...
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Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS
Kyle, Margaret - 2009
. Patent protection has increased around the world as a consequence of the TRIPS Agreement, which specifies minimum levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463181
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Networked FDI : Sales and Sourcing Patterns of Japanese Foreign Affiliates
Baldwin, Richard - 2012
This paper applies a novel empirical approach to characterising the horizontal-ness and vertical-ness of affiliates based on Yeaple's complex FDI concept. In its simplest form, horizontal-ness is measured as affiliates' local sales share while their vertical-ness is measures as their share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460576
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Global Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion
Lind, Nelson; Ramondo, Natalia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a Ricardian model of trade in which countries innovate ideas that diffuse across the globe. In this model, the forces of innovation and diffusion combine to shape trade substitution patterns. Innovation makes a country technologically distinct, reducing their substitutability with...
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