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What has been the overall global welfare impact of the accession to the World Trade Organization of a large country … simple user-friendly formula to calculate the global welfare impact of the simultaneous trade liberalization of a number of … countries? How sensitive is the answer to the assumption of the trade model? We find a striking answer to these questions. We …
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We use a multi-country asymmetric oligopolistic framework for segmented markets to study the welfare effects of reducing tariff discrimination --- which we call a move towards Most Favored Nation tariffs. Both unilateral and multilateral reforms are considered. We investigate this issue under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096165
What has been the overall global welfare impact of the accession to the World Trade Organization of a large country … simple user-friendly formula to calculate the global welfare impact of the simultaneous trade liberalization of a number of … countries? How sensitive is the answer to the assumption of the trade model? We find a striking answer to these questions. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108084
We use a multi-country asymmetric oligopolistic framework for segmented markets to study the welfare effects of reducing tariff discriminations - which we call a move towards Most Favored Nation tariffs. Both unilateral and multilateral reforms are considered. We investigate this issue under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157795
exports. The paper modifies Arkolakisś (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and …
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The doctrine of patent exhaustion implies that the authorized sale of patented goods “exhausts” the patent rights in the goods sold and precludes additional license fees from downstream buyers. Courts have considered absolute exhaustion, in which the patent owner forfeits all rights upon an...
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The doctrine of "patent exhaustion" implies that the authorized sale of patented goods "exhausts" the patent rights in the goods sold and precludes additional license fees from downstream buyers. This paper offers the first formal economic model of domestic patent exhaustion that incorporates...
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On May 30, 2017, the Supreme Court held that the initial authorized sale of a patented item within or outside the U.S. "exhausts" all rights of the patentee to that item under the Patent Act. This decision goes against the Government's position that a foreign sale authorized by the U.S. patentee...
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On May 30, 2017, the Supreme Court held that the initial authorized sale of a patented item within or outside the U.S. “exhausts” all rights of the patentee to that item under the Patent Act. This decision goes against the Government's position that a foreign sale authorized by the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947350
We analyse strategic environmental standards in the presence of foreign direct investment (FDI). A foreign firm located in a host country competes with a domestic firm in another country to export a homogeneous good to a third country. We also extend the model to allow the number of FDI to be...
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