Does intellectual property rights reform spur industrial development?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Branstetter, Lee; Fisman, Ray; Foley, C. Fritz; Saggi, Kamal
• 署名单位: Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Mellon University; Columbia University; Harvard University; Vanderbilt University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2010.09.001
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 27-36
• 关键词: Intellectual property rights; multinational enterprises; Foreign direct investment; Industrial development; Production shifting

摘要

An extensive theoretical literature generates ambiguous predictions concerning the effects of intellectual property rights (IPR) reform on industrial development. The impact depends on whether multinational enterprises (MNEs) expand production in reforming countries and the extent of decline in imitative activity. We examine the responses of U.S.-based MNEs and domestic industrial production to a set of intellectual property rights reforms in the 1980s and 1990s. Following reform, MNEs expand the scale of their activities. MNEs that make extensive use of intellectual property disproportionately increase their use of inputs. There is an overall expansion of industrial activity after reform, and highly disaggregated trade data indicate higher exports of new goods. These results suggest that the expansion of multinational activity more than offsets any decline in imitative activity. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.