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Words in Patents : Research Inputs and the Value of Innovativeness in Invention

Packalen, Mikko - 2014

Intelligently allocating research effort and funds requires deciding whether to build on recent advances or on more established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the invention process promotes technological progress....

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Have Newer Cardiovascular Drugs Reduced Hospitalization? Evidence from Longitudinal Country-Level Data on 20 OECD Countries, 1995-2003

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2010

This study examines the effect of changes in the vintage distribution of cardiovascular system drugs on hospitalization and mortality due to cardiovascular disease using longitudinal country-level data. The vintage of a drug is the first year in which it was marketed anywhere in the world. We...

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Innovation, Diffusion, and Trade

Eaton, Jonathan - 2012

We explore the determinants of research specialization across countries and its consequences for relative wages. Using a dynamic Ricardian model we examine the effects of faster international technology diffusion and lower trade barriers on the incentive to innovate. In the absence of any...

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Stagnation and Scientific Incentives

Bhattacharya, Jay - 2020

New ideas no longer fuel economic growth the way they once did. A popular explanation for stagnation is that good ideas are harder to find, rendering slowdown inevitable. We present a simple model of the lifecycle of scientific ideas that points to changes in scientist incentives as the cause of...

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The Impact of Public and Private Research Support on Premature Cancer Mortality and Hospitalization in the U.S., 1999-2013

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2017

We use data from PubMed and other sources to examine the impact of public and private research support on premature (before ages 75, 65, and 55) cancer mortality and hospitalization, by estimating difference-in-differences models based on longitudinal, cancer-site-level data on about 30 cancer...

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International R&D Spillovers : A Re-Examination

Lichtenberg, Frank R.; van Pottelsberghe de la … - 2021

Coe and Helpman(1995) have measured the extent to which technology spills over between industrialized countries through the particular channel of trade flows. This paper re-examines two particular features of their study. First, we suggest that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects...

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European Technology Policy

Eaton, Jonathan; Gutierrez, Eva; Kortum, Samuel S. - 2021

European countries do less research than Japan and the United States. We use a quantitative multi-country growth model to ask: (i) Why is this so? (ii) Would there be any benefit to expanding research in Europe? (iii) What would various European research promotion policies do? We find that (i)...

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Pharmaceutical Innovation and Longevity Growth in 30 Developing and High-Income Countries, 2000-2009

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2014

I examine the impact of pharmaceutical innovation, as measured by the vintage (world launch year) of prescription drugs …

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Has Medical Innovation Reduced Cancer Mortality?

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2014

I analyze the effects of four types of medical innovation and cancer incidence on U.S. cancer mortality rates during … that there were no pre‐dated factors that drove both innovation and mortality and that there would have been parallel … trends in mortality in the absence of innovation, the estimates indicate that there were three major sources of the 13 …

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The Other Ex-Ante Moral Hazard in Health

Bhattacharya, Jay - 2008

an induced innovation externality. This alternative mechanism, by contrast, causes people to devote an inefficiently high … level of self-protection. As an empirical example of this externality, we analyze the innovation induced by the obesity … epidemic. Obesity is associated with an increase in the incidence of many diseases. The induced innovation hypothesis is that …

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