. 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 …

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 …

.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure …Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector … emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U …

for acquiring for the purpose of putting a patent to sleep decreases when the intellectual property law is stricter …

We examine the Nash equilibria of a game where two national governments set patent breadth strategically. Broader … patents make R&D more attractive, but the effect on static efficiency is nonmonotonic. In a North.South model, where only the … North can innovate, harmonization of patent breadth lowers welfare relative to the Nash equilibrium. When both countries can …

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent … participation of a patent's original examiner in the opposition division as an instrument. We find a disciplinary effect of … invalidation: Affected inventors file 20% fewer patent applications in the decade after the decision. This effect is entirely …

We investigate how international patent activity enables firms from emerging economies to thrive in the global … marketplace. We match Chinese customs data to US patent records, and leverage the quasi-random assignment of USPTO patent … examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful …

This paper provides a first comprehensive quantitative analysis of optimal patent policy in the global economy. We … application delivers three main results. First, the potential gains from international cooperation over patent policies are large …

This paper develops a model of patent trolls to understand various litigation strategies employed by nonpracticing …

-competitive effects of patent pools for complementary patents naturally extend for dynamic innovation incentives. However, this simple …This paper analyzes patent pools and their effects on innovation incentives. It is shown that the pro … case, the licensing fees reflect the strength of patents. Patent pools of complementary patents can be used to discourage …