The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a new mega-regional trade accord and the most ambitious international trade deal for 20 years. Although it still has to be ratified, once in place we expect it to lead to substantial improvements in intellectual property protection and market openness,...

Using bilateral trade data of countries from 2000 to 2007, this paper contributes to the empirical literature on the role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in global trade. The existing literature has focused on how IPRs in the destination country affect exports from a source country. In...