Intellectual Property Rights and Location Choices
Pfister, Étienne
Intellectual Property Rights and Location Choices - 2003.
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This article considers a location choice between two identical countries differentiated only by the protection they provide to corporate owners of intellectual property rights. It is shown that when foreign direct investment deters entry by local imitators, the multinational firms settles into the low-protection country if the markets under consideration are sufficiently large relative to the export costs between these two countries.Classification JEL: F23, K0, O34
Intellectual Property Rights and Location Choices - 2003.
95
This article considers a location choice between two identical countries differentiated only by the protection they provide to corporate owners of intellectual property rights. It is shown that when foreign direct investment deters entry by local imitators, the multinational firms settles into the low-protection country if the markets under consideration are sufficiently large relative to the export costs between these two countries.Classification JEL: F23, K0, O34
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