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Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Innovation : Evidence from TRIPS
Kyle, Margaret - 2014
protection within a specified time period as part of the TRIPS Agreement. However, members retained the right to impose price … product level, selection into TRIPS "treatment" is exogenously determined by compliance deadlines that vary across countries … discrimination across countries has increased for drugs patented post-TRIPS and prices are negatively related to the burden of …
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The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties
Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2002
Intellectual property treaties have two main types of provisions: national treatment of foreign inventors, and harmonization of protections. I address the positive question of when countries would want to treat foreign inventors the same as domestic inventors, and how their incentive to do so...
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Intellectual Property Rights and North-South Trade
Chin, Judith C. - 1988
We study the incentive that a government in the South has to protect the intellectual property rights of Northern firms, and the consequences of the decision taken by the South for welfare in the North and for efficiency of the world equilibrium. We conduct our analysis in the context of a...
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Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Data
Branstetter, Lee - 2005
This paper examines how technology transfer within U.S. multinational firms changes in response to a series of IPR reforms undertaken by 16 countries over the 1982-1999 period. Analysis of detailed firm-level data reveals that royalty payments for technology transferred to affiliates increase at...
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Do Formal Intellectual Property Rights Hinder the Free Flow of Scientific Knowledge? An Empirical Test of the Anti-Commons Hypothesis
Murray, Fiona - 2005
While the potential for intellectual property rights to inhibit the diffusion of scientific knowledge is at the heart of several contemporary policy debates, evidence for the "anti-commons effect" has been anecdotal. A central issue in this debate is how intellectual property rights over a given...
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Proprietary vs. Public Domain Licensing of Software and Research Products
Gambardella, Alfonso - 2005
We study the production of knowledge when many researchers or inventors are involved, in a setting where tensions can arise between individual public and private contributions. We first show that without some kind of coordination, production of the public knowledge good (science or research...
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A Model of Forum Shopping, with Special Reference to Standard Setting Organizations
Lerner, Josh - 2004
Owners of intellectual property or mere sponsors of an idea (e.g., authors, security issuers, sponsors of standards) often need to persuade potential buyers or adopters of the worth of their property or idea. To this purpose, they often resort to more or less independent certifiers. This paper...
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Soft Information, Hard Sell : The Role of Soft Information in the Pricing of Intellectual Property
Goetzmann, William N. - 2004
There is a growing literature on the differential impact of soft' vs. hard' information on organizational structure and behavior. This study is an attempt to empirically quantify the value of soft information, using a data-base on the market for screenplays. Script quality is difficult to...
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Technological Innovations and Endogenous Changes in U.S. Legal Institutions, 1790-1920
Khan, B. Zorina - 2004
Recent scholarship highlights the importance of institutions to the processes of economic growth, but the precise nature of their relationship bears further examination. This paper considers how the evolution of legal institutions has contributed to, and in turn been affected by, major...
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Procuring Knowledge
Maurer, Stephen M. - 2003
There is growing public interest in alternatives to intellectual property including, but not limited to, prizes and government grants. We argue that there is no single best mechanism for supporting research. Rather, mechanisms can only be compared within specific creative environments. We...
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