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文獻出處

Patents, appropriate technology, and North-South trade

Diwan and Rodrik

Journal of International Economics, 30, 1991, 27- 47

報告人

吳芝文 

參加人員

吳世傑、王光正、楊亞博、王胤杰、冰瑤、吳芝文、李玫郁、李家銘、李揚、林晏如、林燕淑、邱俊榮、胡均立、高國峰、涂光億、張民忠、梁文榮、許淑女英、陳宏易、陳盈秀、彭正浩、曾靜枝、黃鴻、蔡明芳

討論提要

This paper considers the incentives of the North and the South to provide patent protection to innovating firms in the North. The two regions are assumed to have different distributions of preferences over the range of exploitable technologies. This provides a motive for the South to protect patent rights even when it constitutes a small share of the world market and has strong free-riding incentives otherwise.  The major object of this study is the effect of regulations controlling the level of transportation cost absorption. Given that welfare is maximized at zero absorption and firm profit is maximized at spatial price discrimination, it is curious that regulations commonly require that the monopolist set uniform delivered price.

 

 

延伸研究

The setting about the differences between the North and the South in demand side is quite simple and meaning-loaded. It can be explored easily in any research projects talking about the differences in countries. Even in the quality model, it is able to work.

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