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International Protection of Intellectual Property
The authors study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy. They also study international patent agreements by deriving the properties of an efficient global regime of patent protection and asking whether harmonization of patent policies is necessary or sufficient for global efficiency
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