Anti-foreign bias in the court: Welfare explanation and evidence from Canadian intellectual property litigations

doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2018.11.008

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	Anti-foreign bias in the court: Welfare explanation and evidence from Canadian intellectual property litigations
	Mai, Joseph 1; Stoyanov, Andrey 2
刊名	JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
	2019-03
卷号	117 页码:21-36
关键词	Home country bias Legal system Intellectual property rights
ISSN号	0022-1996
DOI	10.1016/j.jinteco.2018.11.008
英文摘要	Are judges concemed, in the same way as policy makers, with the effects of their decisions on national welfare? In this paper, we analyze this question by examining the outcomes of intellectual property rights (IPR) litigations between domestic and foreign firms. We use a simple model of oligopoly, in which IPR takes the form of a more efficient production technology, to illustrate how antiforeign bias varies across cases when judges have welfare concerns. The predictions of the model are tested using data on all Canadian IPR cases over a four-year period. We find that foreign firms have about 25 percentage points lower probability of protecting their IPR in Canadian courts relative to domestic firms. We also find that courts' decisions are aligned with national welfare maximization principles so that foreign firms are less likely to win in those cases when the implied welfare gains from not protecting foreign IPR are greater. These findings are robust to controlling for endogenous selection of firms into litigation. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
WOS记录号	WOS:000463687400002
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://10.2.47.112/handle/2XS4QKH4/321]
专题	上海财经大学
通讯作者	Stoyanov, Andrey
作者单位	1.Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Dept Int Econ & Trade, Coll Business, 100 Wudong Rd, Shanghai, Peoples R China; 2.York Univ, Dept Econ, Fac Liberal Arts & Profess Studies, 1084 Vari Hall,4700 Keele St, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mai, Joseph,Stoyanov, Andrey. Anti-foreign bias in the court: Welfare explanation and evidence from Canadian intellectual property litigations[J]. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS,2019,117:21-36.
APA	Mai, Joseph,&Stoyanov, Andrey.(2019).Anti-foreign bias in the court: Welfare explanation and evidence from Canadian intellectual property litigations.JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS,117,21-36.
MLA	Mai, Joseph,et al."Anti-foreign bias in the court: Welfare explanation and evidence from Canadian intellectual property litigations".JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS 117(2019):21-36.