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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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Do Institutions Cause Growth?

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2004

We revisit the debate over whether political institutions cause economic growth, or whether, alternatively, growth and human capital accumulation lead to institutional improvement. We find that most indicators of institutional quality used to establish the proposition that institutions cause...

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Institutional and Non-Institutional Explanations of Economic Differences

Engerman, Stanley L. - 2003

Although we cannot conceive of processes of economic growth that do not involve institutional change, in this essay we outline some reasons why one should be cautious about grounding a theory of growth on institutions. We emphasize how very different institutional structures have often been...

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The World our Grandchildren Will Inherit : The Rights Revolution and Beyond

Acemoglu, Daron - 2012

Following on Keynes's Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, this paper develops conjectures about the world we …

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International Trade and Institutional Change

Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2011

This paper analyzes the impact of international trade on the quality of institutions, such as contract enforcement, property rights, or investor protection. It presents a model in which imperfect institutions create rents for some parties within the economy, and are a source of comparative...

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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...

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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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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...

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