The Impact of Strengthening Foreign Patent Rights Protection on Taiwan’s Manufacture Exports: An Application of DID

• Main Authors: Wei-Hsiu Liao, 廖偉秀
• Other Authors: Wen-Hsien Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/s7dhxa

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 國際經濟研究所 === 103 === This study aims to examine the impact of TRIPs on how strengthening patent rights (PRs) in foreign countries may stimulate the Taiwanese exports in six manufacturing industries by using a panel of 50 foreign destinations over the period of 1989-2005. The Difference in Differences (DID) approach is introduced to control for fixed effects and other unobserved factors which may bias the estimation. For comparison purposes, we first define these six industries as "patent-sensitive" (semiconductor, information and communication equipment) or "patent-insensitive" (footwear, paper and clothing), and then group foreign destinations in two different ways. The first follows Liu and Lin (2005) and groups countries as "technology leaders" if having stronger R&D ability than Taiwan or "technology followers" if having weaker R&D ability. The other follows Ivus (2010) and groups countries as "developed" or "developing" countries. The empirical results confirm that the Taiwanese manufacturing exports to developing countries (compared to developed countries) in patent-sensitive industries (compared to patent insensitive industries) increases with the improvement of foreign PRs protection during the post-TRIPs period.