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Aidan Hollis

Professor of Economics, University of Calgary
Verified email at ucalgary.ca
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The Health Impact Fund: incentives for improving access to medicines

A Banerjee, A Hollis, T Pogge - The Lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
and development. However, present market forces and intellectual property rights provide
little incentive for innovation in the diseases of low-income countries, such as diarrhoeal …

An economic justification for open access to essential medicine patents in developing countries

S Flynn, A Hollis, M Palmedo - Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2009 - cambridge.org
Not all intellectual property rights grant the right to exclude that is indicative of “property rules,”
as that term was used by Guido Calabresi and A. Douglas Melamed in their seminal article…

[HTML][HTML] Industry incentives and antibiotic resistance: an introduction to the antibiotic susceptibility bonus

…, MEA de Kraker, S Edwards, A Hollis - The Journal of …, 2020 - nature.com
The scarcity of novel antibiotic compounds in a time of increasing resistance rates has begun
to ring alarm bells at the highest echelons of government. Large new financial incentives to …

[HTML][HTML] New approaches to rewarding pharmaceutical innovation

P Grootendorst, A Hollis, DK Levine, T Pogge… - CMAJ, 2011 - Can Med Assoc
Aspects of the drug patent system make it challenging for companies to earn the sales revenues
needed to recoup costs of research and development. First, the time between discovery …

Microcredit: What can we learn from the past?

A Hollis, A Sweetman - World Development, 1998 - Elsevier
Six microcredit organizations of 19th-century Europe are compared to identify what institutional
designs were conducive to success and sustainability. Organizations that depended on …

Co-authorship and the output of academic economists

A Hollis - Labour economics, 2001 - Elsevier
This paper uses panel data on 339 economists to evaluate the relationship between co-authorship
and output. It is shown that for a given individual, more co-authorship is associated …

[HTML][HTML] Preserving antibiotics, rationally

A Hollis, Z Ahmed - New England Journal of Medicine, 2013 - Mass Medical Soc
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[HTML][HTML] Attitudes, behaviours and barriers to public health measures for COVID-19: a survey to inform public health messaging

R Lang, JL Benham, O Atabati, A Hollis, T Tombe… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background Public support of public health measures including physical distancing,
masking, staying home while sick, avoiding crowded indoor spaces and contact tracing/exposure …

Impact of isolation precautions on quality of life: a meta-analysis

…, M Lu, C Doolan, J Leal, J Kim, A Hollis - Journal of Hospital …, 2020 - Elsevier
Impact of isolation precautions on psychological wellbeing of patients has yet to be fully
quantified. To assess the impact of isolation precautions on patients' health-related quality of life …

The life-cycle of a microfinance institution: The Irish loan funds

A Hollis, A Sweetman - Journal of economic behavior & organization, 2001 - Elsevier
Ireland’s loan funds were a long-lived, self-sustaining, large-scale microfinance organization
that made millions of loans, without collateral, to the poor. During the first 100 years of their …