Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation. We examine … negative impact on downstream innovation in medical implants, but it had no significant effect on upstream polymer patenting … effect on downstream innovation …

the health of Americans during the period 1990-2003. We hypothesize that, the more medical innovation there is related to … hypothesis, we estimate models of health outcomes using longitudinal disease-level data. We measure innovation in five types of … outpatient drug innovation had larger increases in mean age at death, controlling for other medical innovation rates and initial …

I study the channels through which health insurance influences medical innovation. Following Medicare and Medicaid … per resident. Consistent with historical case studies, Medical innovation's determinants extend beyond the potential … revenues associated with global market size; a physician driven process of innovation-while-doing appears to play a central …

quantity of medical innovation. Analyzing whether inventions emphasize cost and/or quality requires generating new data. We do …