This chapter surveys the literature on international trade and the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in the global economy. The discussion is organized around the major questions in the field. How does openness to trade affect national incentives for patent protection? What is...

In this paper we show that standard conclusions of the dynamic literature on intellectual property rights (IPR) protection are not robust to incorporating reasonable features of the economic environment. We construct a bi-dimensional model of dynamic endogenous product innovation and...