An empirical investigation of the effect of Intellectual Property Rights systems on Foreign Direct Investment Flows and Spillovers

The major themes of this thesis are the impact of Intellectual Property (IP) systems on foreign direct investment spillovers and bilateral FDI flows. This thesis consists of three empirical studies. The first study integrates in the existing theoretical frameworks the distinct effect of the public IP enforcement element of IP systems on FDI horizontal spillovers. By employing a meta-analysis approach and the ordered probit model estimation technique, it finds that the strength of public IP enforcement in a host country has a positive effect on FDI horizontal spillovers but it dampens the positive effect of IP law protection on FDI horizontal spillovers when it becomes too strong. The second empirical study examines the impact of IP systems on FDI vertical spillovers. This study employs a similar conceptual and empirical approach and finds that the strength of public IP enforcement has a positive effect on FDI vertical spilloversbut a negative moderating effect on the relationship between the strength of IP law protection and FDI vertical spillovers. In the third empirical study, a gravity model is applied to test the effect of IP systems on bilateral FDI flows in OECD countries. Using the Poisson pseudo-maximum-likelihood, it finds both the strength of IP law protection and the strength of public IP enforcement to have a positive effect on bilateral FDI flows. The broad implication of these findings is that countries should strengthen both their IP law protection and enforcement but apply appropriate measures to mitigate the negative effect resulted from excessive IP protection.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

University of Bradford

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Christopoulou, Danai

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Wang, Chengang
• Papageorgiadis, Nikolaos
• Magkonis, Georgios

• Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
• Foreign direct investment
• Spillovers
• Meta-analysis
• OECD countries

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Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17230

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/17230