In this paper we attempt to evaluate the possible spill-over of the international agreement on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs for short), underwritten in 1994, regarding economic growth for both wealthy and developing countries. We find that the TRIPs convention has...

This paper comes in the wake of the literature considering technological progress as the main device to offset air pollution caused by economic activity. The issue has been extensively studied in general, but there is no previous research on the effects that an international strengthening of...

We study the effects of an international increase in the legal protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), on technological progress and the development of the financial market. In particular, we demonstrate that the international agreement on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property...