Do Deep Regional Trade Agreements Facilitate International Research Collaboration?

Naoto Jinji, Xingyuan Zhang and Shoji Haruna

Discussion papers from Graduate School of Economics , Kyoto University

Abstract: We examine whether regional trade agreements (RTAs) facilitate international research collaboration. First, using a two-country model of a continuum of oligopolitic industries with process research and development (R&D) investment and spillovers, we analyze whether trade liberalization through a trade agreement with deep economic integration increases the number of firms that engage in research collaboration. We then empirically investigate the effects of deep RTAs by employing data on patents with multiple inventors from different countries at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for 114 countries/regions over the period 1990–2011. We interpret co-inventions by inventors residing in different countries as evidence of international research collaboration. We use dummy variables and indexes to measure the extent of economic integration by RTAs. We find that deeper integration is associated with more active international co-inventions. We check the robustness of our findings by employing various specifications and addressing endogeneity issues.

Keywords: Research collaboration; international co-invention; regional trade agreement; deep integration. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 L13 O31 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37
Date: 2022-05
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