Compulsory Licensing Often Did Not Produce Lower Prices For Antiretrovirals Compared To International Procurement

Finding flaws: the limitations of compulsory licensing for improving access to medicines--an international comparison.

Could international compulsory licensing reconcile tiered pricing of pharmaceuticals with the right to health?

BACKGROUND The heads of the Global Fund and the GAVI Alliance have recently promoted the idea of an international tiered pricing framework for medicines, despite objections from civil society groups who fear that this would reduce the leeway for compulsory licenses and generic competition. This paper explores the extent to which an international tiered pricing framework and the present leeway f...

Compulsory Licensing and Access to Medicine in Developing Countries

Transactions That Did Not Happen and Their Influence on Prices

This paper studies data from the wholesale fruit and vegetables market in Marseille. We have details of counteroffers to the prices that were proposed by the seller even when no transaction took place. With a simple theoretical model we analyse the evolution of prices during the day and in particular the relation between the final price struck and the proposals of the two parties. Periods with ...

Transmission of International Prices of Corn to Iranian Domestic Markets

Market volatility remains one of the most important research fields in agricultural economics.Interestingly, price transmission mechanism seems to be symmetric in sectors that are likely to be of high political power.This paper analyzes the price transmission effects from international markets to domestic markets for corn in Iran. For this purpose, we estimate the elasticity of substitution bet...