Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50795#.VE8L5FfHRK0 Author(s) Leave a comment Nasser Al-Mawali Affiliation(s) College of Economics and Political Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman . ABSTRACT The intention of this paper is to provide "for the first time" a conceptual framework on how a level of IPRs is linked to bilateral intra-industry trade (IIT) flows. The proposed analysis of the relationship between IPRs and IIT of this paper is couched in a simple and intuitive framework that answers a positive question of how intellectual property rights (IPRs-) induced market expansion, and market power effects are related to the horizontal ...
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