"Innovation and international trade are two important drivers of economic growth. These two activities perform differently under different types of market competition. This book - a collection of several important research publications by Larry D Qiu - discusses innovation and international...

We build a multi-sectoral North-South trade model to analyze international intellectual property rights (IPR) protection. By comparing the Nash equilibrium IPR protection standard of the South (the developing countries) with that of the North (the developed countries), we find that the former is...

We develop a model to study the implications of a legal environment on software development and international trade. We show that the degree of contract enforcement affects the organizational mode (i.e., in-house versus outsourcing) of customized software development. In autarky, a country with...