The working paper gives a first evaluation of a comprehensive survey of trade associations in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and at the European level. This survey is part of a broader research programme on "Interest Intermediation in the European Union" that started with a number of case...

The paper focuses on the regulation and parallel trade for innovative in-patent medicines in the setting of a partially integrated EU-wide market for pharmaceuticals, the impact of different national and European level regulatory regimes, under which the prices for theses innovative medicines...

The basis of European research policy since the mid eighties is a complex guiding policy idea. This guiding policy idea consists of two closely related claims, namely (a) that trans-border co-operation in research and development serves private profit interests and overall economic growth and...