This paper provides a survey on studies that analyze the macroeconomic effects of intellectual property rights (IPR). The first part of this paper introduces different patent policy instruments and reviews their effects on R&D and economic growth. This part also discusses the distortionary...

What are the effects of increasing developing countries’ intellectual property rights protection on growth, welfare and income inequality in the global economy? To analyze this question, we develop a two-country R&D-growth model with wealth heterogeneity. We find that the North experiences...

This paper explores the impact of labor market integration between an advanced country (North) and backward country (South) on income distribution and pattern oftrade by making use of a two-sector, competitive trade model with heterogeneous labor. We prove that, for the North, after the labor...