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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Cs. Económicas |
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Main Author: | Scandizzo, Stefania |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2001
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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 |