Welfare effects of patent protection and productive public services: Why do developing countries prefer weaker patent protection?

Tatsuro Iwaisako

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 118, issue 3, 478-481

Abstract: This paper examines the welfare-maximizing degree of patent protection in a growth model where the engines of economic growth are R&D and public services. The result shows that if public services are small, the welfare-maximizing level of patent protection is weaker.

Keywords: Endogenous growth; Patent protection; Public services; Welfare analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O34 O38 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.12.033

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