Intellectual property rights are fundamental to how economies organize innovation and steer the diffusion of knowledge …

This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of …. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …

the presence of such products on innovation and consumer welfare. For a given number of buyers, platform liability … increases innovation by reducing the competitive pressure faced by innovative products. However, there can be a misalignment of … intended effect on innovation. Platform liability tends to increase (decrease) innovation and consumer welfare when the …

a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size and in their capacities for … innovation. We associate the strength of IPR protection with the duration of a country's patents that are applied with national …

training. Taken together, our findings highlight the trade-off between interests of rightsholders and promoting innovation at …

It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out …

own innovation. The analysis predicts that the willingness to enforce IPR is U-shaped in a country GDP: small … enforcement of IPR yields a higher level of innovation and global welfare only if the developing country does not innovate. A …