This paper proposes a fixed-effect panel methodology that enables us to simultaneously take into account both TFP … Italy up to the mid-seventies. Finally, we find that our TFP estimates are highly positively correlated with standard human …

This paper analyzes welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in the framework of TRIPS for … environment, the South sets its IPR policy strategically to manipulate multinationals’ decisions on innovation and location. Firms … can protect their technology by exporting or risk spillovers by undertaking FDI to avoid tariffs. A stringent IPR regime …

This paper investigates the role of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and Environmental Policies (EPs) on … clean (renewable) and dirty (fossil-based) technology diffusion from top-innovators. IPR protection and EPs are extensively … debated policy tools, as IPR protection addresses knowledge market failure, while EPs respond to pressing local and global …

This paper studies cross-border intellectual property rights (IPR) as a North-South contract using a Nash bargaining … level of IPR protection relates positively to absorptive capacity. This provides a rationale for the longer time … Representative “Special 301” report, which flags countries that deny adequate IPR protection as “priority watch list”. While disputes …