An Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights Infringement - Field Studies in Developing Countries

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

Chapter 1 Introduction: A Methodology and Its Precursors

Abstract

1.1 Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Infringement and Economic Development

1.2 Law and Economics and Industrial Organization

1.3 Methodology of Field Research

1.4 Summary of Outcomes

1.5 Concluding Remarks

References

Chapter 2 Unauthorized Copying and Incentives for Musicians

Abstract

2.1 Background

2.2 Related Literature

2.3 Factors Causing P2P File-Sharing Expansion in Developed Countries

2.4 Circumstances for P2P File-Sharing in Vietnam

2.5 Effects of Almost Non-Existent Copyright Protection on File-Sharing

2.6 Meanings of CD Sales for Singers

2.7 A Model of the Musician’s Dilemma

2.8 Rational Media Selection by Consumers

2.9 Concluding Remarks

References

Chapter 3 Fake Spare Parts When No Domestic Brand Names Can Be Trusted

Abstract

3.1 Background

3.2 Incomplete Information for Consumers

3.3 Incomplete Information on Quality of Domestic Products

A Model

Equilibrium

Incentives of Producers and Consumers

3.4 Counterfeiters’ Incentives to Create Original Brands

A Model

An Equilibrium

Incentives for Counterfeiting

Market Maturity Under Economic Growth

3.5 Concluding Remarks

Appendix

References

Chapter 4 Markets of Quasi-Credence and Similar Foods

Abstract

4.1 Background

4.2 Quasi-Credence Food

Incentives of Authorities

Domestic Food as Experience Goods

4.3 A Negative Frequency-Dependent Selection in Imitated Foods

4.4 A Positive Frequency-Dependent Selection in Similar Foods

4.5 Actual Trade of Counterfeit Japanese Food

4.6 Concluding Remarks

Appendix

References

Chapter 5 General Conclusions

Abstract

Index