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Unilateral Measures and Emissions Mitigation
Chatterji, Shurojit - 2009
We discuss global climate mitigation that builds on existing unilateral measures to cut emissions. We document and discuss the rationale for such unilateral measures argue that such measures have the potential to generate positive spillover effects both within and across countries. In a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463208
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The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010
Global climate change mitigation will require the development and diffusion of a large number and variety of new technologies. How will patent protection affect this process? In this paper we first review the evidence on the role of patents for innovation and international technology transfer in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462333
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Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Innovation : Evidence from TRIPS
Kyle, Margaret - 2014
countries from 2000-2013. The World Trade Organization required its member countries to implement a minimum level of patent … 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 …
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Mitigating Disaster Risks to Sustain Growth
Hong, Harrison - 2020
We provide the planner's solution to a model where households learn from exogenous natural disaster arrivals about arrival rates and spend to mitigate future damages. Mitigation cannot be decentralized due to positive externalities from curtailing aggregate risks. First-best can be implemented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482023
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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore
Whalley, John - 1996
This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473066
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150 Years of Patent Protection
Lerner, Josh - 2000
This paper examines three sets of explanations for variations in the strength of patent protection across sixty countries and a 150-year period. Wealthier nations are more likely to have patent systems, to allow patentees a longer time to put their patents into practice, and to ratify treaties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471298
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How to Count Patents and Value Intellectual Property : Uses of Patent Renewal and Application Data
Lanjouw, Jean O. - 1996
Patent counts are very imperfect measures of innovative output. This paper discusses how additional data-the number of years a patent is renewed and the number of countries in which protection for the same invention is sought - can be used to improve on counts in studies which require a measure...
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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...
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Competing Engines of Growth : Innovation and Standardization
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are adapted to be produced using unskilled labor. Our...
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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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