De Vita, Glauco; Alexiou, Constantinos; Trachanas, Emmanouil - In: Journal of Economic Studies 49 (2021) 8, pp. 1387-1421
Purpose: Despite decades of research, the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and foreign direct investment (FDI) remains ambiguous. Using a recently developed patent enforcement index (along with a broader IPR index) and a large sectoral country-to-country FDI dataset, the...