The Economics of Intellectual Property and Counterfeiting

Abstract：  

Dr. Yi Qian will start with an overview of her research agenda on the Economics of Intellectual Property and Counterfeiting, then dive into a recent working paper “The Market Impacts of Patent Regime Shifts: A Natural Experiment from the Chinese Pharmaceutical Industry 2005-2014”, which is coauthored with Lihong Yang (Nanjing Audit University) and Shixun Wang (Fuzhou University).

Speaker Biography：     

Yi Qian is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Sciences at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada. She is also a Research Associate at the NBER, U.S.A.. She holds B.A. in Economics, M.A. in Statistics, and Ph.D. in Economics all from Harvard University. Before joining UBC, she served as a faculty at the Kellogg School of Management and a research fellow at the Searle Center of Law and Economics and IPR, Northwestern University. Her substantive research is centered on the economics of innovation, intellectual property (IP), blockchain, and brand management against counterfeiting. He methodological research develops applied econometric methods to draw causal inferences, account for missing data, and correct for sampling biases.