A Patent Policy Proposal for Global Diseases 1 (2007)
Jean O. Lanjouw, Michael Kremer, Peter Lanjouw, Mark Lemley, Josh Lerner, Keith Maskus, ...
There are two identifiable types of diseases in developing countries. Some, such as malaria, are specific to poor countries, but many others, such as cancer, have a high incidence in all countries....
In this essay the authors set out a general proposal for a multilateral agreement on "open access" in basic science and technology. The authors discuss the economic foundations for such an accord,...
In this essay the authors set out a general proposal for a multilateral agreement on "open access" in basic science and technology. The authors discuss the economic foundations for such an accord,...
Intellectual property rights and prospects for U.S.-Japan cooperation in Asia (2002)
Weinstein, David, Rapp, William, Takenaka, Toshiko, Myers, Robert, Branstetter, Lee, Milhaupt, Curtis, ...
Technological progress and increased globalization have raised the importance of intellectual property rights (IPR) issues. As countries at the technological frontier, the United States and Japan...
Intellectual property rights and prospects for U.S.-Japan cooperation in Asia (2002)
Weinstein, David, Rapp, William, Takenaka, Toshiko, Myers, Robert, Branstetter, Lee, Milhaupt, Curtis, ...
Technological progress and increased globalization have raised the importance of intellectual property rights (IPR) issues. As countries at the technological frontier, the United States and Japan...
Is Small Beautiful? Trade Shares and Trade Creation with Differentiated Products
Denise Eby Konan, Keith Maskus
In a small open economy model where imports (exports) are differentiated by region of origin (destination), the welfare effects of a preferential trade agreement (PTA) are considered. Trade creation...
Wholesale Price Discrimination and Parallel Imports
Mattias Ganslandt, Keith Maskus
We develop a model of vertical pricing in which an original manufacturer sets wholesale prices in two markets integrated at the distributor level by parallel imports (PI). In this context we show...
Development-Related Biases in Factor Productivities and the HOV Model of Trade
Keith Maskus, Shuichiro Nishioka
Past empirical failures of the basic Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) model related to the inability of data to meet its restrictive assumptions, particularly identical international technologies and...
Joint Trade Liberalization and Tax Reform in a Small Open Economy: The Case of Egypt
Denise Eby Konan, Keith Maskus
We develop a computable general equilibrium model of the Egyptian economy. The model is suitable for analyzing the impacts of reforms in the tax system, the trade-policy regime, or both taken...
An Egypt-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Economic Incentives and Effects
Bernard Hoekman, Denise Konan, Keith Maskus
Egypt, U.S. trade policy, Arab League, free trade agreements
An Egypt-United States Free Trade Agreement: Economic Incentives and Effects
Hoekman, Bernard, Konan, Denise, Maskus, Keith
This paper explores the economic impact of a free trade agreement (FTA) between Egypt and the United States, assuming that Egypt implements both the recently agreed Arab League FTA and a Partnership...
Vertical Pricing and Parallel Imports
We generalize an earlier model of international vertical pricing to explain key features of parallel imports, or unauthorized trade in legitimate goods. When a manufacturer (or trademark owner) sells...
THE GLOBALIZATION OF PRIVATE KNOWLEDGE GOODS AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF GLOBAL PUBLIC GOODS
Global trade and investment have become increasingly liberalized in recent decades. This liberalization has lately been accompanied by substantive new requirements for strong minimum standards of...
Regulatory Standards in the WTO
The negotiation of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) greatly expands the purview of the World Trade Organization (WTO) into domestic regulatory standards....
The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation in Services
services, innovation, intellectual property rights, copyrights, L8, O32, O34,