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Does parallel trade freedom harm consumers in small markets?
Mueller-Langer, Frank - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Countries can freely decide whether to permit or ban parallel trade. Article 6 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) – being the only provision in the various international agreements on intellectual property rights that deals with the...
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An analysis of the ambiguous welfare effects of parallel trade freedom
Mueller-Langer, Frank - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The regulation of parallel trade has become a critical issue in the global trading system, as the welfare effects of parallel trade freedom are generally ambiguous. In this paper we investigate the welfare effects of parallel trade freedom for low, intermediate, and high trade costs and...
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Standards, IPR and digital TV convergence: theories and empirical evidence
Matteucci, Nicola - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Media convergence presents a few noticeable dimensions, and requests an interdisciplinary research approach. We conduct a long-run analysis of the main initiatives of technological standardization carried out in the realm of “traditional” (cable, satellite and terrestrial) digital TV,...
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Timing of investments and third degree price discrimination in intermediate good markets
Li, Youping - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
two models with different timing of investments, before or after the upstream monopolist sets the input prices. When … investments are determined after the prices are set, an indirect effect of input prices on the derived demand from downstream … play in the latter model, i.e., it benefits from committing to prices before investments are undertaken. A change of timing …
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Intellectual property rights, innovation and technology transfer: a survey
Anja, Breitwieser; Neil, Foster - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Following the conclusion of the TRIPS Agreement, much has been written on the potential costs and benefits of stronger Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) protection in terms of its impact on innovation and technology transfer, as well as economic growth and welfare. This paper documents the...
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Trade sustainability impact assessment (SIA) on the comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada: Final report
Kirkpatrick, Colin; Raihan, Selim; Bleser, Adam; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Commissioned by the European Commission, the Final Report for the EU-Canada Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) on the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) provides a comprehensive assessment of the potential impacts of trade liberalisation under CETA. The analysis...
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Effects of TRIPS on Growth, Welfare and Income Inequality in an R&D-Growth Model
Chu, Angus C.; Peng, Shin-Kun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
What are the effects of the WTO's TRIPS Agreement on growth, welfare and income inequality? To analyze this question, we develop an open-economy R&D-driven endogenous-growth model with wealth heterogeneity. Under TRIPS, the North experiences higher growth and welfare at the expense of higher...
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New Policy Regime and Small Pharmaceutical Firms in India
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Small firms dominate the Indian pharmaceutical industry with significant contribution to the national drug production and employment. They had played an important role in enhancing domestic technological capabilities in drugs production and have been instrumental in keeping drugs prices...
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Legal Enforcement against Illegal Imitation in Developing Countries
Suzuki, Keishun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of seizing illegal imitations within developing countries on imitation, innovation, and economic growth. The model shows four main results. First, a higher seizure rate does not always decrease imitative activity in the South because it may encourage the...
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Regulating Pharmaceutical Prices in the European Union
Csizmazia, Roland Attila - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This case study aims to provide a better understanding of the necessity for regulation in the market for pharmaceuticals and to reveal the impacts of parallel trades in the European Union and how they may affect markets in the future. The pharmaceutical industry up to now has largely been...
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