The paper implementing the imperfect competitive equilibrium model, increasing returns to scale, the coordination failure problem and the learning-by-doing argument discusses the economic efficiency of local content requirements (LCRs). It is shown that the LCRs are economically unjustifiable...

This paper throws light on what national treatment of IPR means, how the concept evolved and what are the different treaties which has adopted the principle of national treatment to provide an efficient protection to different forms of Intellectual Property Rights. The paper also discusses the...