The Market Impacts of Pharmaceutical Product Patents in Developing Countries : Evidence from India

In 2005, as the result of a World Trade Organization mandate, India implemented a patent reform for pharmaceuticals that was intended to comply with the 1995 Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Exploiting variation in the timing of patent decisions, we estimate that a mole...

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Main Authors: Duggan, Mark, Garthwaite, Craig, Goyal, Aparajita
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23939