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Would global patent protection be too weak without international coordination?
Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Yan, Isabel K.-M. - 2011
This paper analyzes the setting of national patent policies in the global economy. In the standard model with free trade and social-welfare-maximizing governments à la Grossman and Lai (2004), cross-border positive policy externalities induce individual countries to select patent strengths that...
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Cutting too close? Design protection and innovation in fashion goods
Hackett, Petal Jean - 2012
Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...
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On the Heterogeneous Trade and Welfare Effects of GATT/WTO Membership
Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2020
equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member counties is …
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Pricing Group Membership
Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha - 2020
We consider a model where agents differ in their ‘types' which determines their voluntary contribution towards a public good. We analyze what the equilibrium composition of groups are under centralized and centralized choice. We show that there exists a top-down sorting equilibrium i.e. an...
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Job Satisfaction and Trade Union Membership in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Huang, Yue - 2022
union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed … of union membership, we generate information on the union density individuals faced in their industry and region. This … time-variant IV suggests no causal impact of individual union membership on job satisfaction. Finally, using different …
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The Effect of Intellectual Property Rights on Domestic Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Sector
Gamba, Simona - 2016
This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of 74 countries. The identification strategy exploits the different timing across countries of two sets of IPR reforms. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted...
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Intellectual property rights, technology transfer and exports in developing countries
Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - 2008
We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...
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Tax Losses and Ex-Ante Offshore Transfer of Intellectual Property
Sharma, Rishi; Slemrod, Joel; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2021
We develop a positive model of multinational firm behavior and analyze a firm’s incentive to transfer an intellectual property (IP) right of uncertain value offshore ex ante, i.e. before its success or failure is realized. With an asymmetric treatment of losses in the home country, the...
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Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level
Cruzatti C., John - 2020
We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002-2014 period. We address causality by instrumenting aid with a set...
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Social Organizations and Political Institutions : Why China and Europe Diverged
Mokyr, Joel; Tabellini, Guido - 2023
This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and … Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on … different social organizations (clans in China, corporate structures in Europe) that spread in these two societies at the turn …
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