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Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act

Moser, Petra; Voena, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Compulsory licensing allows firms in developing countries to produce foreign-owned inventions without the consent of foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensing after World War I under the Trading with the Enemy Act to examine the long run effects of...

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Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

Moser, Petra; Lampe, Ryan L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

a package to other firms. Regulators favor pools as a means to encourage innovation: Pools are expected to reduce … the effects of a patent pool on innovation. Contrary to theoretical predictions, the sewing machine pool appears to have … discouraged patenting and innovation, in particular for the members of the pool. Data on stitches per minute, as an objectively …

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Intellectual property rights policy, competition and innovation

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 10 (2012) 1, pp. 1-42

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Spatial Errors in Count Data Regressions

Moser, Petra; Bertanha, Marinho - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Count data regressions are an important tool for empirical analyses ranging from analyses of patent counts to measures of health and unemployment. Along with negative binomial, Poisson panel regressions are a preferred method of analysis because the Poisson conditional fixed effects maximum...

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Patent Laws and Innovation: Evidence from Economic History

Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic … existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2) May patent laws influence the direction - as opposed to the rate … innovations in developing countries, discourage innovation in the developing countries? This essay summarizes results of existing …

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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Hanson, Gordon; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...

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German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention

Moser, Petra; Voena, Alessandra; Waldinger, Fabian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés ….S. invention. Inventor-level data indicate that émigrés encouraged innovation by attracting new researchers to their fields, rather …

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Patent Pools and the Direction of Innovation - Evidence from the 19th-century Sewing Machine Industry

Moser, Petra; Lampe, Ryan L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

that pools encourage innovation in pool technologies, albeit at the cost of innovation in substitutes. Empirical evidence … innovations by new firms for a historical pool in the sewing machine industry (1856-1877) to examine effects on innovation …. Contrary to theoretical predictions, this analysis suggests that pools may discourage innovation in pool technologies and shift …

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Contracts and the Division of Labor

Acemoglu, Daron; Antras, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

We develop a tractable framework for the analysis of the relationship between contractual incompleteness, technological complementarities, and technology adoption. In our model a firm chooses its technology and investment levels in contractible activities by suppliers of intermediate inputs....

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How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World Fairs

Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

of patent law on innovation. The data have been constructed from the catalogues of two 19th century world fairs: the …

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