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Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen - Vol. 62 Num. 3, Septembre 2007

Das Parallelimportverbot Der Schweiz Aus Sicht Der Aussenhandelstheorie

This paper analyses Swiss import policy for patent-protected goods (national exhaustion) - which in comparison with other (European) countries is restrictive - from the perspective of international trade theory. Even though trade theory provides arguments against the elimination of trade barriers in multiply-regulated markets (theory of the second best), these seem to apply, if at all, to price-regulated goods in the specific case analysed in this paper. There is a danger that liberalising im...