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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Trade, innovation and optimal patent protection |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Department of Economics |
| Number | 456 |
| ISSN | 1664-7041 (P) 1664-705X (E) |
| Number of Pages | 80 |
| Date | 2024 |
| Abstract Text | Intellectual property rights are a recurrent source of tensions between developed and developing economies. This paper provides the first quantitative analysis of optimal patent policy in trading economies. We develop a new model of trade, growth and patenting in which patent protection affects both innovation and market power. The model is estimated using data on patent applications to calibrate patent protection by country and the geography of innovation. Counterfactual analysis yields three main results. First, the potential gains from international cooperation over patent policies are large. However, achieving these gains requires more innovative economies to offer stronger protection. Second, only a small share of these gains has been realized so far. And third, by pushing towards policy harmonization, the TRIPS agreement hurts developing countries without generating global welfare gains. Overall, there is substantial scope for policy reforms to increase efficiency. |
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| Official URL | https://econ.uzh.ch/de/research/workingpapers.html |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:24162 |
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| Additional Information | Revised edition: Auch publiziert als CESifo Working Paper No. 10777. https://www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2023/working-paper/trade-innovation-and-optimal-patent-protection und Cepr Discussions Paper DP18598 https://cepr.org/publications/dp18598 und |