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Heterogeneity of southern countries and southern intellectual property rights policy

Jeong‐Eon Kim and Harvey Lapan

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2008, vol. 41, issue 3, 894-925

Abstract: Abstract. We develop a model with one innovating northern firm and heterogeneous southern firms that compete in a final product market. We assume southern firms differ in their ability to adapt technology and study southern incentives to protect intellectual property rights. We find that, in a non‐cooperative equilibrium, governments resist IPR protection, but collectively southern countries benefit from some protection. We show that, in general, countries with more efficient firms prefer higher collective IPR protection than those with less efficient firms. Given the aggregate level of IPR protection, it is more efficient if the more efficient countries have weaker IPR protection. Les auteurs développent un modèle dans lequel coexistent une entreprise innovatrice du Nord et des entreprises hétérogènes du Sud qui se concurrencent dans un marché de produit final. On postule que les entreprises du Sud diffèrent dans leur capacitéà adopter la technologie et on étudie les différentes incitations au Sud à protéger les droits de propriété intellectuelle (DPI). Il appert que dans un équilibre sans coopération, les gouvernements résistent à la pression pour qu'on protège les DPI, mais que collectivement ils bénéficient de cette protection. On montre qu'en général les pays dont les entreprises sont les plus efficaces supportent une protection collective des DPI plus robuste que ne le font les pays dont les entreprises sont moins efficaces. Le niveau général de protection des DPI étant donné, c'est plus effectif si les pays les plus efficaces ont des niveaux de protection des DPI plus faibles.

Date: 2008
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