关键词: 知识产权保护, 国际贸易, 经济发展, 全要素生产率, intellectual property rights, international trade, economic development, total factor productivity

Abstract: This paper selects intellectual property rights and international trade as two dominant factors of China’s economic development, and assumes that GDP per worker are composed by fixed-asset investment, average years of education and total factor productivity, then empirically investigate the contribution of the two factors to GDP per worker. Firstly, the paper chooses the method of calculating China’s total factor productivity, and constructs empirical regression model. Secondly, we calculate China’s physical capital stock, total factor productivity and level of intellectual property rights from 1985 to 2009, respectively. Finally, we conduct empirical analysis using China’s time series data. The results show that intellectual property rights and international trade are both determinants of China’s long-term economic development. The contribution of international trade to China’s economic development is largely through the channel of fixed-asset investment and technology advancement, and the contribution of intellectual property rights to China’s economic development is largely through the channel of high quality labor.