2016/28 LEM Working Paper Series

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

Mercedes Campi, Marco Duenas, Matteo Barigozzi, Giorgio Fagiolo
  Keywords
 
Intellectual Property Rights; Mergers and Acquisitions; Technological Intensity; Gravity Model


  JEL Classifications
 
O34; G34; O13; O14


  Abstract
 
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.
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