Tanaka, Hitoshi; Iwaisako, Tatsuro - In: European Economic Review 67 (2014) C, pp. 107-124
This paper examines how intellectual property rights (IPR) protection affects innovation and foreign direct investment (FDI) using a North–South quality-ladder model incorporating the exogenous and costless imitation of technology and subsidy policies for both R&D and FDI. We show that for the...