Intrellectual property rights and international R&D competition /

This paper examines a country's incentives for intellectual property rights (IPR) protection in a global trading environment. There is a time inconsistency problem intrinsic to IPR protection: ex ante strong protection is warranted to promote innovation, but once discovery takes place there is...

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Main Author: Scandizzo, Stefania
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001
Series:IMF working paper ; no. WP/01/81
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Online Access:http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2001/wp0181.pdf