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to protect IPR increases global welfare iff such protection is necessary for inducing the firm to export to the South. …
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licensing benefits the South and also increases global welfare when the North-South technology gap is significant. The price …
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This paper analyzes the causes and consequences of regional exhaustion of intellectual property, a policy regime under which a set of countries permit parallel imports from one another but not from the rest of the world. A three-country model is developed in which two high-income countries...
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In an international trading economy where countries set tariffs strategically, modeled using a Cobb-Douglas example, this paper studies the relationship between the structure and the performance of the world market. Using new results from monotone comparative statics in a Shapley-Shubik market...
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We examine the phenomenon of "pockets of teenage illegitimacy" in a model of social approval, where attitudes to such illegitimacy are endogenously determined at a local community level. Both a woman's actual well-being and her community's perception of that well-being in each potential state -...
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This paper shows how the institutional rules imposed on its signatories by the GATT created a strategic incentive for countries to liberalize gradually. Trade liberalization must be gradual, and free trade can never be achieved, if punishment for deviation from an agreement is limited to a...
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actually be welfare-enhancing in the strongest sense: there is a portion of the parameter space wherein incomplete information …
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to protect IPR increases global welfare iff such protection is necessary for inducing the firm to export to the South. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550236
to protect IPR increases global welfare iff such protection is necessary for inducing the firm to export to the South. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550746
licensing benefits the South and also increases global welfare when the North-South technology gap is significant. The price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550749