Mitra, Nilanjana Biswas <br/><br/>
IPR regulatory policy, tariff and entry modes of MNC  

 - Artha Vijnana  
 - 62(3), Sep, 2020: p.257-281 
<br/><br/> The paper links the optional IPR rate and tariff rate chosen by a less developed country (LDC) government to the mode of entry of a multinational corporation (MNC) in it. The MNC can either export or fragment the production structure by shafting assembly line units to the LDC where the cost of assembling the product is lower. Under fragmentation, a commercial pirate can copy the products with positive probability  and the MNC insure anti copying investment to deter piracy. The results how that under different combinations of copying the probability of the pirate and cost incentive of fragmentation of difference equilibrium configuration can be chose.  – Reproduced