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Intellectual Property Rights and Preferential Trade Agreements: Data, Ceoncepts and Research Avenues

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  • Manfred Elsig

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Today, more than half of international trade is regulated through preferential trade agreements (PTAs). While in the past, these agreements served as tools to eliminate further tariffs between the parties, today we witness the increasing inclusion of trade-related provisions such as Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) protection, competition clauses or behind-the-border regulation. This paper maps the variation of IPR provisions using three different concepts: The degree of IPR protection, IPR enforcement and multilateral coherence. In addition, it explores who are the main advocates of IPR protection and how successful are their approaches to embed IPR protection in PTAs? This paper presents novel fine grained data which captures the variation in the design of IPRs in 661 PTAs building on the DESTA database (www.designoftradeagreements.org). A review of literature is done and a descriptive look at the new dataset and an outline of the future research avenues is provided.

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  • Manfred Elsig, 2016. "Intellectual Property Rights and Preferential Trade Agreements: Data, Ceoncepts and Research Avenues," Working Papers id:10864, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:10864
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