Elsig, Manfred; Surbeck, Jenny (April 2016). Intellectual Property Rights and Preferential Trade Agreements: Data, Concepts and Research Avenues (NCCR Trade Working Paper Series 2016/02). Bern, Switzerland: World Trade Institute, NCCR Trade Regulation
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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). We review the literature and provide a descriptive look on.the new dataset and outline future research avenues.
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Working Paper |
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Division/Institute: |
11 Centers of Competence > KPM Center for Public Management 02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > World Trade Institute 10 Strategic Research Centers > World Trade Institute 02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > NCCR International Trade Regulation |
UniBE Contributor: |
Elsig, Manfred, Surbeck, Jenny |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 340 Law 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 380 Commerce, communications & transportation |
Series: |
NCCR Trade Working Paper Series |
Publisher: |
World Trade Institute, NCCR Trade Regulation |
Funders: |
[UNSPECIFIED] Swiss National Science Foundation |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pablo Rahul Das |
Date Deposited: |
31 Mar 2017 16:45 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:04 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.98135 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/98135 |
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