Pan, Shiyuan; Zhang, Mengbo; Zou, Heng-fu - China Economics and Management Academy, Central … - 2011
We build a growth model with status preference to explore the effects of patent protection on innovation and social …, and the growth-rate-maximizing degree of patent protection decreases with the strength of status preference. Moreover, the … effect of patent protection on social welfare is ambiguous, depending on the strength of status preference. Finally, a cross …