The protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) has not been harmonized across jurisdictions. There is a need to investigate the influence of IPR protection on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for different host jurisdictions. The link between the strength of a state’s IPRs regime and its...

North-South foreign direct investment (FDI) is frequently viewed as a process in which jobs relocate from the North to the South. I build a growth model with two asymmetric trading economies, the North where firms innovate and the South where Northern firms invest to take advantage of lower...