This paper evaluates how different lengths of entry regulation impact market structure and market performance using a … evidence that the duration of entry regulation has a negative impact on consumer surplus. We also find that entry protection …

. If the share of privacy-concerned users is sufficiently small, privacy regulation has a negative effect on innovation and …We analyze how a privacy regulation taking the form of a cap on information disclosure affects quality …-enhancing innovation incentives by a monopolist-who derives revenues solely from disclosing user data to third parties-and consumer surplus …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …

. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic …Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon …

causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel. …

. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 …-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong …

of R&D. Our work analyzes knowledge diffusion and knowledge externalities in generating innovation and in determining … North America as revealed by patent citation between US-granted patents. Then we estimate the impact of these flows on … productivity of R&D resources in generating innovation (patenting) and productivity (TFP). While we find that knowledge diffusion …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … lower than the social plannerś benchmark, which suggests a role for patent policy. We focus on a "non-infringing inventive … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …