The Economic Effects of Intellectual Property Service Industries Using Inter-Industry Analysis

The Effects of Intellectual Property Rights Violations on Economic Growth

This paper examines the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and the growth rate of per capita GDP during the period 1996-2006 in a sample 71 countries. Using software piracy data as a proxy for IPR violations, we find that countries with increasing rates of software piracy have lower growth rates. We also find that states with strong commitments to enact policies to protect...

Economic Foundations of Intellectual Property Rights

My work in the economics of innovation began some forty years ago. I realized, as I was beginning my work on the Economics of Information, that knowledge and information are very similar. In fact, you can view information as a particular kind of knowledge, and so the problems that I was analyzing at the time, such as how well the market economy deals with information, corresponded to the questi...

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ASSOCIATES for WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION

Globalization, intellectual property, and economic prosperity

Innovation and the adoption of new ideas is fundamental to economic progress, and so is free trade of goods and services. Herewe examine the underlying economics of the market for ideas and its implications for trade. From a positive perspective, we examine how such markets function and how international trade interact with them. From a normative perspective, we examine the pitfalls of current ...

Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Development