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Market power in the global economy: the exhaustion and protection of intellectual property
(Vanderbilt University, 2011)
This paper analyzes economic linkages between the exhaustion and protection of intellectual property. We consider a North-South model, where a firm that enjoys monopoly status in the North by virtue of an intellectual ...
Strategic Competition and Optimal Parallel Import Policy
(Vanderbilt University, 2011)
This paper shows that parallel import policy can act as an instrument of strategic trade policy. We demonstrate this result in two-country international duopoly where a domestic monopolist competes with a rival firm in the ...
Equilibrium parallel import policies and international market structure
(Vanderbilt University, 2011)
In a North-South vertically differentiated duopoly, we derive equilibrium government policies towards parallel imports (PIs). By incorporating strategic interaction at the policy-setting stage and the product market, the ...