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Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment and Innovation

Glass, Amy Jocelyn; Saggi, Kamal - 2008

This paper develops a product cycle model with endogenous and costly innovation, imitation, and foreign direct investment (FDI) to address the concerns of developing nations that stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection would force them to waste scarce resources 'reinventing the...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development

Saggi, Kamal; Branstetter, Lee - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This paper develops a North-South product model in which Southern imitation and the North-South flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) are endogenously determined. In the model, a strengthening of IPR protection in the South reduces the rate of imitation, which, in turn, increases the flow of...

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Innovation and Wage Effects of International Outsourcing

Glass, Amy Jocelyn; Saggi, Kamal - 2001

We study the role of increased outsourcing of production to a low wage country on relative wages across countries and innovation incentives. In particular, we examine the following causal forces behind an increase in the extent of international outsourcing: 1) a reduction in the resource...

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The Dynamic Impact of Internalization Advantage

Glass, Amy Jocelyn; Saggi, Kamal - 1999

Internalization advantage determines whether firms use foreign direct investment (FDI) or licensing to serve markets abroad. We determine how innovation affects the incentives for internalization and how internalization in turn affects the incentives for innovation. Bigger innovations are kept...

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Incomplete Harmonization Contracts in International Economic Law : Report of the Panel, China - Measures Affecting the Protection and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, W...

Saggi, Kamal; Trachtman, Joel P. - 2010

main issues: 1. The relationship between China’s censorship laws and its obligations to protect copyright under the WTO … counterfeiting or copyright piracy comply with TRIPS requirements for application of criminal procedures and penalties. International … that discretion - so as to defect from the general commitment to provide copyright or other intellectual property rights …

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Compulsory Licensing, Price Controls, and Access to Patented Foreign Products

Bond, Eric; Saggi, Kamal - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2012

Motivated by existing multilateral rules regarding intellectual property, we develop a North-South model to highlight the dual roles price controls and compulsory licensing play in determining Southern access to a patented Northern product. The Northern patent-holder chooses whether and how to...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence

Saggi, Kamal; Branstetter, Lee; Fisman, Raymond; Foley, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the effect of strengthening intellectual property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are...

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Entry into a Foreign Market : Foreign Direct Investment Versus Licensing

Saggi, Kamal - 1998

We compare foreign direct investment (FDI) and technology licensing as two modes of entry into a foreign market. While direct entry via FDI dissipates rents in the host country, opportunistic competition from a licensee may erode rents in the entrant's other markets. Since FDI increases...

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Patent protection and the industrial composition of multinational activity : evidence from U.S. multinational firms

Ivus, Olena; Park, Walter Ginn; Saggi, Kamal - 2015

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Patent protection and the composition of multinational activity : evidence from US multinational firms

Ivus, Olena; Park, Walter Ginn; Saggi, Kamal - In: Journal of international business studies : JIBS ; an … 48 (2017) 7, pp. 808-836

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