International Intellectual Property Rights Protection and the Rate of Product Innovation Edwin L.C. Lai Journal of Development Economics 55 (February 1998):133-153.

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International Intellectual Property Rights Protection and the Rate of Product Innovation Edwin L.C. Lai Journal of Development Economics 55 (February 1998):

Product Cycle Models Lacked FDI  In standard product cycles models, for production to be shifted to the South, Southern firms must expend effort to imitate production technologies.  Why don’t Northern firm shift their production to the South instead? Build a plant in the South to reap cost savings.

FDI Important  Greater and greater shares of world output are being produced and traded by multinational firms.  Need some product cycle models with foreign direct investment (FDI) to understand the role of multinational in innovation, international technology transfer, and imitation.  Possible that results found in standard product cycle models might be differ if FDI occurs.

FDI in Product Cycle (Helpman 1993)  First effort to add FDI to a product cycle model less than satisfying.  Purpose of model was to examine effects of IPRs on Southern welfare. Stronger Southern IPR protection captured as an exogenous reduction in imitation intensity.  Two models: one with endogenous innovation but no FDI, and the other with FDI but innovation exogenous.

FDI with Endogenous Innovation  Lai saw need for a model with FDI and endogenous innovation to properly assess effects of IPRs.  What Helpman should have done was add FDI keeping innovation endogenous, but likely that welfare analysis (including transitional dynamics) would have been too complex.  If willing to stick to steady-state analysis, FDI with endogenous innovation can be done, as Lai shows.

IPRs Matter  Helpman found that reducing the imitation intensity: Reduced rate of innovation in the base case without FDI, Reduced FDI in the version with exogenous FDI.  Remained unknown what reducing imitation intensity would do to FDI and innovation in a model with FDI and endogenous innovation. Lai finds FDI and innovation both fall.

FDI Matters  Comparing the case with FDI to that without, having FDI occur leads to a reversal of the effect of reducing the imitation intensity on innovation. Without FDI, less imitation leads to less innovation. With FDI (and no imitation prior to becoming a multinational), less imitation leads to more innovation. When FDI and imitation coexist as channels of international technology transfer, all depends on which channel is predominate.

IPRs Encourage FDI  That stronger IPR protection in the South encourages FDI seems to make intuitive sense. Less imitation makes profit stream last longer (in expected value), which encourages innovation.  Less obvious that there is an effect related to labor constraints. Without FDI, more demand for Northern labor due to longer monopolies pushes up the Northern wage and makes innovation more expensive. But with FDI, demand for labor rises in the South rather than the North, so this effect discouraging innovation is avoided.

Modifications Needed to Add FDI  Helpman’s base model was just Grossman and Helpman’s product cycle model but with exogenous imitation (no imitation valuation condition).  Helpman’s model with FDI had already tackled how to put FDI into product cycle model.  Lai’s model is a mixture of Helpman’s two models, which is Grossman and Helpman’s product cycle model plus FDI minus endogenous imitation.

Lai’s Model  Consumer side is same as GH, as it is in most variety-based product cycle models.  In terms of market structures, need to add one more: multinational production. Measures of products produced by Southern imitators, Northern firms producing in the North, and multinational firms producing in the South must sum to one.

Profit Maximization by MNCs  Lai normalizes the unit labor requirement in production to one a x = 1.  Multinationals, like Northern firms, price at a fixed markup over marginal cost.  Multinationals enjoy lower costs producing in the South due to lower wage there, so they change lower prices than Northern firms. (p F is p m in article).

Exogenous Imitation  Innovation modeled the same as in GH but imitation is exogenous here.  M (iδ in the article) is the exogenous hazard rate, the probability that a multinationalized product will be imitated in the next instant.  There is no imitation targeting products produced in the North in the base model.  Imitation is costless.

Profit Maximization by Southern firms  Once a product has been imitated, the Southern firm prices at marginal cost p S = w S. Bertrand competition against the multinational producing that variety. MNCs have same cost as Southern firms.  Adding FDI gets rid of large gap versus small gap. Like always small gap as price at rival’s marginal cost. Here wage gap across countries irrelevant since rival producing in same country.

IPRs and Imitation  As in Helpman, a strengthening of Southern IPR protection is captured as an exogenous reduction in the imitation hazard rate. Can be thought of as better enforcement of patent laws. If all imitation illegal (patent not expired), better enforcement means more copiers are caught so fewer successfully compete in the marketplace.

MNCs More Profitable  The pricing expressions for MNCs and Northern producers and the standard demand function lead to:  Profits for MNC exceed those for Northern producer due to lower wage in the South. Wage is per efficiency unit of labor since unit labor requirement in production normalized to one.

Profit Streams  Expected present discounted value (PDV) of profits for a MNC (Π m in article):  Expected PDV of profits for a Northern firm (Π N in article):

Valuation Conditions  Valuation (free entry) condition for innovation: cost of innovation must equal reward.  Valuation condition for multinationalization: Northern firms indifferent to becoming MNC.

MNCs and Imitation Risk  Putting the two conditions together, MNC profits must exceed profits as a Northern firm to offset imitation hazard.  Putting together with relative wage version:

Profit Expressions  Recall Unit labor requirement in production normalized to one. Price is constant markup over marginal cost.  Profit of Northern firm  Profit of MNC

Labor Constraints  Northern labor constraint: demand for innovation and Northern production cannot exceed Northern labor supply.  Southern labor constraint: demand for production by MNCs and Southern firms cannot exceed Southern labor supply.

System of Equations  Main equations are valuation conditions for innovation and multinationalization, and Northern and Southern labor constraints.  Find expressions for market measures based on endogenous arrival rate of innovations (g) and hazard rate of multinationalization (ω), and exogenous imitation.  Boil down to two equations in g and ω.

Relative Wages  Effects on relative wages across countries indicate consequences for income distribution.  Using r = ρ +φg and the expression for profits of MNC relative to Northern firm gives an expression for the Southern wage relative to the Northern wage:  Decrease in M leads to increase in g, which both increase the Southern relative wage.

Main results  If multinationalization is the channel of international production transfer, stronger IPRs in the South lead to: higher rate of innovation, higher rate of production transfer from the North to the South, and higher wage of South relative to North.  Opposite happens if imitation is the channel.

Effects of Southern IPR Protection Channel of Production Transfer MultinationalizationImitation Rate of innovation+- Rate of production transfer +- Relative wage of South +-