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How Stronger Patent Protection in India Might Affect the Behavior of Transnational Pharmaceutical Industries

To address questions about how stronger patent rights will affect India's pharmaceutical industry, the author simulates the effects of introducing such protection - as required by the World trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) - on market structure...

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Main Author: Fink, Carsten
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:
advertising
brand loyalty
brand name
brand names
brands
commercialization
complex task
constant marginal costs
consumers
cournot competition
demand elasticity
demand functions
developed countries
duopoly
economic circumstances
economic consequences
economic theory
economies of scale
elasticities
elasticity of substitution
equilibrium
exchange rate
exclusive rights
exports
fixed costs
imperfect substitutes
imports
income
insurance
legislation
manufacturing industry
marginal cost
market behavior
market demand
market power
market segments
market share
market structure
marketing
mergers
monopolies
multilateral trade
nash equilibrium
patents
perfect competition
price ceilings
price control
price controls
price increases
price index
producers
product differentiation
property rights
public health
publicity
sales
substitutes
substitution
surplus
surpluses
technical assistance
total sales
trademarks
utility function
World Trade Organization
WTO
patent agreements
pharmaceutical industry
drug industry
intellectual property rights
drug prices
nontariff trade barriers
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21481

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