The Political Economy of Patent Buyouts
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political economy and feasibility of this potentially important financing mechanism have been understudied. We study an international setting of countries with different innovation and financing capabilities, and where financing ...
Amal Ahmad +2 more
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Charting the Etanercept Journey: Tracing Cost Dynamics in Poland's Off-Patent Market from Reference Drug Rivalry to Biosimilar Monopoly. [PDF]
BioDrugsStajszczyk M +5 more
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The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biased recommendations arise naturally in markets with heterogeneous consumers. We study a model in which a monopolist offers an experience good to a population of consumers with heterogeneous tastes and makes personalized purchase recommendations.
Martin Peitz, Anton Sobolev
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Forced to Live: Controlled Forced Feeding of Political Prisoners and the Challenge to Nation-States' Civilising Processes. [PDF]
Br J SociolVertigans S, Connolly J, Dolan P.
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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The Trump Administration's 'earthquake' is why we need the New Public Health Order. [PDF]
PLOS Glob Public HealthMurray-Evans P +5 more
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“Green Developmentalism” and the Role of International Law in Negotiating the Energy Transition
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Policy evolutions in North American and European capitals have prompted debates about ongoing shifts in global economic governance from a primary emphasis on promoting markets to a more extensive role for the state in steering economic relations.
Lorenzo Cotula
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Can antitrust policy promote enterprise innovation? Evidence from Zhongguancun science and Technology Park. [PDF]
HeliyonWang W, Hu B, Liu J, Yang Z.
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Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Does the greater embrace of industrial policy globally signal the emergence of a New Washington Consensus? We show that the multiplication of industrial policies, while consequential, signals neither normalisation nor consensus. Rather, industrial policy is increasingly the object of contestation over norms and practices of state ...
Ilias Alami, Jack Taggart, Tom Chodor
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