World Scientific Studies in International Economics: Volume 24

Globalizing Information

The Economics of International Technology Trade

https://doi.org/10.1142/8454 | January 2014

Pages: 508

By (author):
Keith E Maskus (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)

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This volume presents important analyses of international trade, technology transfer and the global economics of intellectual property rights through selected and key works of Keith E Maskus, spanning his long career. The book includes 17 chapters, ranging from theoretical modeling to empirical and statistical analysis, and policy contributions. Readers will find significant questions addressed in the determinants of trade, foreign direct investment, patents and trade, licensing, parallel imports, and innovation. These chapters span the scope of economic analysis of the globalization of intellectual property and technology transfer, a field in which the author has been a pre-eminent presence.

Contents:

- Introduction and Overview (Keith E Maskus)
Intellectual Property Rights:
- How Trade-Related are Intellectual Property Rights? (Keith E Maskus and Mohan Penubarti)
- Intellectual Property Rights, Licensing and Innovation in an Endogenous Product-Cycle Model (Guifang Yang and Keith E Maskus)
- Vertical Distribution, Parallel Trade and Price Divergence in Integrated Markets (Mattias Ganslandt and Keith E Maskus)
- Parallel Imports and the Pricing of Pharmaceutical Products: Evidence from the European Union (Mattias Ganslandt and Keith E Maskus)
- The Impact of Parallel Imports on Investments in Cost-Reducing Research and Development (Changying Li and Keith E Maskus)
Innovation and International Technology Transfer:
- Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries: Unilateral and Multilateral Policy Options (Bernard M Hoekman, Keith E Maskus and Kamal Saggi)
- Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer and Exports in Developing Countries (Lei Yang and Keith E Maskus)
- Southern Innovation and Reverse Knowledge Spillovers: A Dynamic FDI Model (Yin He and Keith E Maskus)
- How National and International Financial Development Affect Industrial R&D (Keith E Maskus, Rebecca Neumann and Tobias Seidel)
Trade in Factors and Technology:
- A Test of the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek Theorem: The Leontief Commonplace (Keith E Maskus)
- Development-Related Biases in Factor Productivities and the HOV Model of Trade (Keith E Maskus and Shuichiro Nishioka)
- Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise (David L Carr, James R Markusen and Keith E Maskus)
- Quantifying the Impact of Services Liberalization in a Developing Country (Denise Eby Konan and Keith E Maskus)
Policy Analysis of Global Public Goods and Technology Transfer:
- Regulatory Standards in the WTO: Comparing Intellectual Property Rights with Competition Policy, Environmental Protection and Core Labor Standards (Keith E Maskus)
- Economic Perspectives on a Multilateral Agreement on Open Access to Basic Science and Technology (John H Barton and Keith E Maskus)
- Developing and Distributing Essential Medicines to Poor Countries: The DEFEND Proposal (Mattias Ganslandt, Keith E Maskus and Eina V Wong)

Readership: Graduate students, researchers, policymakers and negotiators in the fields of international trade, technology management and development economics.

Keith E Maskus is Professor of Economics and former Associate Dean for Social Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He has been a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. He is also a Research Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a Fellow at the Kiel Institute for World Economics, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Bocconi and a visiting scholar at the CES-Ifo Institute at the University of Munich and the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University. He serves also as a consultant for the World Bank and the World Intellectual Property Organization and is currently chairing a panel of the National Academy of Sciences on intellectual property management in standards-setting organizations.

Maskus received his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan in 1981 and has written extensively about various aspects of international trade. His current research focuses on the international economic aspects of protecting intellectual property rights. He is the author of Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy, published by the Institute for International Economics, and co-editor of International Public Goods and the Transfer of Technology under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, published by Cambridge University Press. A new volume, Private Rights and Public Problems: The Global Economics of Intellectual Property in the 21st Century, was published in 2012 by the Peterson Institute for International Economics.