Licensing Life-Saving Drugs for Developing Countries: Evidence from the Medicines Patent Pool

We are grateful to the Editor and two referees for their detailed and constructive suggestions. We thank Esteban Burrone and Amina Maillard for providing access to licensing data and discussions about the Medicine Patent Pool. We also thank Eric Bartelsman, Iain Cockburn, Saul Lach, William Matcham, Tim Simcoe, and seminar participants at Boston University IP Day conference, Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam, OECD IPSDM conference in Warsaw, University of Toronto, University of Utah, Charles River Associates, and University of Cambridge for helpful comments. Harveen Sidhu provided excellent research assistance. Alberto Galasso is grateful for financial support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Mark Schankerman gratefully acknowledges financial support from a STICERD Research Grant at the London School of Economics.

A supplemental appendix is available online at https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01253.