Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/48853 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 96
Publisher: 
Universität Leipzig, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leipzig
Abstract: 
While most countries have harmonized intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation, the dispute about the optimal level of IPR-enforcement remains. This paper develops an endogenous growth framework with two open economies satisfying the classical North-South assumptions to study (a) IPR-enforcement in a decentralized game and (b) the desired globally-harmonized IPR-enforcement of the two regions. The results are compared to the constrained-efficient enforcement level. Our main insights are: The regions' desired harmonized enforcement levels are higher than their equilibrium choices, however, the gap between the two shrinks with relative market size. While growth rates substiantially increase when IPR-enforcement is harmonized at the North's desired level, our numerical simulation suggests that the South may also benefit in terms of long-run welfare.
Subjects: 
Endogenous Growth
Intellectual Property Rights
Trade
Dynamic Game
JEL: 
F10
F13
O10
O30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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