Do Intellectual Property Rights Influence Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions?

Serie

  • LEM Papers Series

Resumen

  • This paper analyses whether the strengthening of intellectual property rights (IPRs) systems affects decisions of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As), and whether their influence is different for developed and developing countries and across industrial sectors. We estimate an extended gravity model to study bilateral flows of M&As using data for the post-TRIPS period (1995-2010) and two different indexes that measure the strength of IPRs systems at the country level. We find that IPRs influence decisions of cross-border M&As and facilitate the creation of investment linkages. However, we detect a heterogeneous impact of IPRs on M&As depending on specificities of countries and sectors.

fecha de publicación

  • 2016-06

Líneas de investigación

  • Acquisitions
  • Gravity Model
  • Intellectual Property Rights
  • Mergers
  • Technological Intensity

Issue

  • 2016/28