The Role of Intellectual Property Rights Protection on Intra- Comesa Trade with A Specific Focus on Trademarks
This paper employs the Pseudo Poisson Maximum Likelihood estimation technique to investigate the impact of trademarks, as a proxy for Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), on intra-Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) trade using panel data from 2000 to 2022.While the study establishes significant aggregate-level market expansion e