Cross-border intellectual property rights: contract enforcement and absorptive capacity

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This paper studies cross-border intellectual property rights (IPR) as a North-South contract using a Nash bargaining approach and distinguishes between the outcome and its actual enforcement. The absorptive capacity of the Southern country to exploit technology transfer plays a key role in the negotiated level of IPRs and its post-treaty enforcement. The optimal level of IPR protection relates positively to absorptive capacity. This provides a rationale for the longer time-frame provided to least developed countries in Article 66 of TRIPS to implement its provisions. In addition, monitoring is only effective in preventing contract violation up to a critical level of absorptive capacity. We relate this to the US Trade Representative "Special 301" report, which flags countries that deny adequate IPR protection as "priority watch list". While disputes with less developed economies are promptly resolved, emerging economies, where most losses from copyright piracy originates from, continue to remain on the list

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE ; No. 809

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital ; Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations ; International Agreements and Observance; International Organizations ; Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation ; Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance: General ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes ; Game Theory and Bargaining Theory: General

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Naghavi, Alireza ; Tsai, Yingyi
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)
• (wo): Bologna
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4209
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/159648
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ