This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property …'s accession to the World Trade Organization) (WTO) in 2001. We also show that there is a positive upstream spillover effect of FDI …

This paper investigates the role of patent protection in the global investment decisions of multinational firms. Using … comprehensive firm-level panel data of German multinationals, we investigate how changes in a host country’s patent protection … influence the extensive and intensive margin of foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions. We isolate the effect of patent …

This paper examines the role of patent policy in the open economy. It begins by considering how the presence of patents … affects trade in patentable products. A brief review of the general argument for patent protection is followed by … consideration of the elements that comprise a patent system, and which determine "patent strength". Attention is then given to how …

We study the relation between patent concentration and tax-motivated income shifting. Using affiliate-level data for … European multinational corporations (MNCs) and employing the relative share of patents held by an MNC as a measure for patent … concentration, we predict and find that tax-motivated income shifting is increasing in the degree of patent concentration. This …

Globalization, high growth rates in high-tech industries, growing emerging markets and harmonization of patent … the decision to patent in a foreign country depends on country characteristics and the quality of the patented invention … international patent protection increases with indicators of the quality of the invention and indicators of technological rivalry …