Mariel, Petr; Orbe, Susan - In: Prague Economic Papers 2009 (2009) 3, pp. 251-266
The present article reexamines some of the issues regarding the benchmarking of patents using the NBER data base on U.S. patents by generalizing a parametric citation model and by estimating it using Generalized Additive Models (GAM) methodology. The main conclusion is that the estimated effects...