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under competition with non-deceptive counterfeiting and deceptive counterfeiting, respectively, as well as under monopoly … branding. A key theoretical prediction is that emerging markets can be self-corrective with respect to counterfeiting issues in …
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Focusing on 8 drug types on the WHO-approved medicine list, we constructed an original dataset of 899 drug samples from 17 low- and median-income countries and tested them for visual appearance, disintegration, and analyzed their ingredients by chromatography and spectrometry. Fifteen percent of...
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heterogeneous impacts of counterfeiting on the sales and consumer purchase intent related to branded products of various quality …
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counterfeiting, the proposed methodology improves the estimation of dynamic effects under heterogeneous response times by firms. We …
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principles of microeconomic theory and uses aggregated product-level data to estimate counterfeiting activities in various … firm operating in 16 countries during the period 2006-2011. Our models predict larger amounts of counterfeiting in … countries with higher corruption norms, lower government control and effectiveness. Predictions of the level of counterfeiting …
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In this paper I provide a theory for brand-protection strategies to reduce counterfeiting under weak intellectual …
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We study the positive and normative effects of counterfeiting, i.e.,trademark infringement, in markets where consumers … counterfeiting: enforcement policy which increases the likelihood of confiscation of illegal items, and the imposition of a tariff on …
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Pharmaceutical products can be of poor quality either because they contain zero correct active ingredient (referred to as "counterfeit") or because they contain a non-zero but incorrect amount of the right active ingredient (referred to as "substandard"). While both types of poor-quality drugs...
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As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
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To quantify trade frictions, we examine multi-product exporters. We build a flexible general equilibrium model and estimate market entry costs using Brazilian firm-product-destination data under rich demand and market-access cost shocks. Our estimates show that additional products farther from a...
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