Title: Intellectual property and development : lessons from recent economic research /
Authors: Fink, Carsten.; Maskus, Keith E.
Publisher: A copublication of the World Bank and Oxford University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Intellectual property Economic aspects.; Law and economic development.
Abstract: "In the mid-1990s, the World Trade Organization developed the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which sets out minimum standards of IPR protection. The World Bank has held keen interest in better understanding how well-designed intellectual property policies can help foster development and reduce poverty. This volume brings together studies conducted by World Bank or Bank-affiliated economic researchers who seek to better understand the economic underpinnings of the different degrees and forms of IPR protection."--Jacket.
Contents: Why we study intellectual property rights and what we have learned / Carsten Fink and Keith E. Maskus. Intellectual property, trade, FDI, and international licensing. How stronger protection of intellectual property rights affects international trade flows / Carsten Fink and Carlos A. Primo Braga -- The role of intellectual property rights in encouraging foreign direct investment and technology transfer / Keith E. Maskus -- Intellectual property rights and U.S. and German international transactions in manufacturing industries / Carsten Fink -- Intellectual property rights and licensing : an econometric investigation / Guifang (Lynn) Yang and Keith E. Maskus -- The composition of foreign direct investment and protection of intellectual property rights : evidence from transition economies / Beata Smarzynska Javorcik. Intellectual property exhaustion and parallel trade. Entering the jungle of intellectual property rights exhaustion and parallel importation / Carsten Fink -- Parallel imports in a model of vertical distribution : theory, evidence, and policy / Keith E. Maskus and Yongmin Chen -- Developing and distributing essential medicines to poor countries : the DEFEND proposal / Mattias Ganslandt, Keith E. Maskus, and Eina V. Wong. Intellectual property, market structure, and innovation. Patent protection, transnational corporations, and market structure : a simulation study of the Indian pharmaceutical industry / Carsten Fink -- Strengthening intellectual property rights in Lebanon / Keith E. Maskus -- Intellectual property rights and economic development in China / Keith E. Maskus, Sean M. Dougherty, and Andrew Mertha.