. The MP links significantly amplified the impact of these shocks on the rest of the world, which had a much greater impact …

feature of economic globalization. What determines the patterns of the internationalization of NGO campaigns? Stylized facts …

This paper analyzes the setting of national patent policies in the global economy. In the standard model with free … induce individual countries to select patent strengths that are weaker than is optimal from a global perspective. The paper … considerations in setting patent policies. The first two features (trade barriers interacting with firm heterogeneity) tend to reduce …

311,000 deaths per year. HPV vaccination is an integral component of the World Health Organization's (WHO) global strategy … to fight the disease. However, high vaccine prices enforced through patent protection are limiting vaccine expansion …, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. By limiting market power, patent buyouts could reduce vaccine prices and raise …