Sojun Park
@SojunPark2
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Postdoc at @MIT_CIS and incoming assistant professor at @LKYSch, studying the political economy of intellectual property rights and international trade.
Cambridge, MA
Joined February 2021
My paper, "The Political Economy of Compulsory Licensing: Democracy and Regulatory Threat in Public Health," has been accepted at Public Choice! It shows why foreign drug companies voluntarily licensed their AIDS patents in democracies during the AIDS crisis. 1/N
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Excited to share that my article on the political economy of compulsory licensing is now available online at Public Choice! Grateful to the reviewers and editors for their thoughtful feedback.
Available now at our website:. Park, S. The political economy of compulsory licensing: democracy and regulatory threat in public health. Public Choice (2025).
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Coming to Seoul for #IPSA2025? Check out this panel next Tuesday! We bring together scholars from around the world using South Korean datasets to explore various IPE topics, including trade, global value chain, diplomacy, and automation.
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RT @xuyiqing: Glad this paper is finally out in @apsrjournal, five years after we began the project. Hope it proves useful to researchers.….
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Causal Panel Analysis under Parallel Trends: Lessons from a Large Reanalysis Study
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RT @YotovG: 📢 NEW DATA!. Javier Flórez, Mario Larch, Sebastien Bradley, and I are very happy share the update of the most disaggregated dat….
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Ph.Done! Truly grateful to my colleagues and mentors at @PUPolitics and @NiehausCenter for their support throughout this journey. Looking forward to starting the next chapters at @MIT_CIS and @LKYSch.
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Implications: for political science research, the paper highlights political institutions as a key driver of firms’ self-regulation. For economics audiences, it points to potential trade-offs between the speed of patented drug diffusion and the pricing of patented drugs. 5/N.
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Key finding: (2) Democracies demonstrated greater credible commitment, due to more active political participation by civil society and stronger legislative oversight of regulatory officials during the AIDS crisis. 4/N.
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Key finding: (1) Foreign firms perceived the threat of compulsory licensing by democracies as more credible and voluntarily licensed their AIDS patents to preempt compulsory licensing. 3/N.
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Motivation: During the AIDS crisis, countries with bigger AIDS-infected populations did not always force foreign drug companies to license their patents to local drug producers. This pattern was stronger in democracies than in non-democracies. Why? 2/N.
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Highly recommended for those studying the political economy of intellectual property and international trade. The counterfactual exercise on US-China trade relations is particularly worth exploring!.
Very excited to see my paper "Dynamic Gains from Trade Agreements with Intellectual Property Provisions" published at the @JPolEcon
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RT @VinPons: We are very happy to publish the new National Elections Database, including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parlia….
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Discover detailed election results for parliamentary and presidential elections worldwide from 1789–2023.
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My co-author @Siyao__Li will be presenting our new paper in #ISA2025! In this paper, we introduce a new dataset on petitions for the Special 301 investigation and explore its implications for IPE research on trade and IPR. Comments and suggestions are welcome!
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RT @LeoBaccini: A very sad day for a trade scholar. We have learned nothing from the past. Nothing. And for someone who has been teaching t….
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RT @SivCheruvu: Are you a junior scholar studying law and politics looking for a friendly place to receive feedback on your work? Apply to….
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This book is full of insights, with implications for regulatory politics that extend well beyond safety standards.
Join me Thursday at 10am ET/7am PT to hear about my new book! If you’ve ever wondered about the politics of safety standards or want to know how firms shape regulations to their advantage (or if you’re interested in NTBs), then this is the talk for you!.
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RT @PerlmanRebecca: Join me Thursday at 10am ET/7am PT to hear about my new book! If you’ve ever wondered about the politics of safety stan….
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I am excited to be part of this great academic community!.
Welcome to our first GPEP Feature! This week, we are featuring @SojunPark2. He is a PhD candidate from @Princeton with a research focus in global governance of intellectual property rights and public health. Read more about Sojun Park here:
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