A Cross-Country Index of Intellectual Property Rights in Pharmaceutical Innovations

Ming Liu and Sumner La Croix
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Ming Liu: Dept. of Finance Nankai University Tianjin, China

No 201313, Working Papers from University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics

Abstract: Building on the seminal work of Ginarte and Park (1997), we develop an index of property rights in pharmaceutical innovations, the Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Protection (PIPP) Index, for 154 countries spanning 1960 to 2005. It incorporates 5 types of property rights in pharmaceuticals; 6 statutory measures of enforcement; and adherence to 3 international agreements providing for the grant and enforcement of rights to foreigners. For both developing and developed countries, the PIPP Index starts at low levels in 1960, increases slowly through the early 1990s, and then sharply increases due to minimum standards set by the 1995 TRIPS Agreement.

Keywords: Patents; index; pharmaceuticals; intellectual property; TRIPS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F53 I18 K42 O31 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53 pages
Date: 2013-08
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Working Paper: A Cross-Country Index of Intellectual Property Rights in Pharmaceutical Innovations (2014)
Working Paper: A Cross-Country Index of Intellectual Property Rights in Pharmaceutical Innovations (2014)
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