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Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity

Goldfarb, Avi; Greenstein, Shane Mitchell; Forman, Chris - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early 1990s to the early 2000s and, similarly, that counties that were leaders...

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Does Knowledge Accumulation Increase the Returns to Collaboration?

Agrawal, Ajay K.; Goldfarb, Avi; Teodoridis, Florenta - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We conduct the first empirical test of the knowledge burden hypothesis, one of several theories advanced to explain increasing team sizes in science. For identification, we exploit the collapse of the USSR as an exogenous shock to the knowledge frontier causing a sudden release of previously...

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Quality-Constant Price Indexes for the Ongoing Treatment of Schizophrenia: An Exploratory Study

Frank, Richard G.; Berndt, Ernst R.; Busch, Alisa B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

Health care expenditures have been increasing sharply in the last ten years, with spending on mental health disorders being particularly prominent. Over the same time period, a number of new antipsychotic medications have been added to the armamentarium for treatment of persons diagnosed with...

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Price Indexes for Medical Care Goods and Services: An Overview of Measurement Issues

Cutler, David M.; Berndt, Ernst R.; Frank, Richard G.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

We review in considerable detail the conceptual and measurement issues that underlie construction of medical care price indexes in the U.S., particularly the medical care consumer price indexes (MCPIs) and medical-related producer price indexes (MPPIs). We outline salient features of the medical...

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Price Indexes for Acute Phase Treatment of Depression

Berndt, Ernst R.; Busch, Susan H.; Frank, Richard G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

Although broad trends in medical spending in the U.S. over the last decade have received widespread attention from policymakers, very little attention has focused on the components of those changes. For many other industries, economists typically divide nominal expenditures by an official...

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Slack Time and Innovation

Agrawal, Ajay K.; Goldfarb, Avi; Catalini, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

The extant literature linking slack time to innovation focuses on how slack time facilitates creative activities such … are less creative but still important for innovation, namely mundane, execution-oriented tasks. First, we document the …, we report timing and project type evidence consistent with the causal interpretation that slack time drives innovation …

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Advanced Purchase Commitments for a Malaria Vaccine: Estimating Costs and Effectiveness

Kremer, Michael; Berndt, Ernst R.; Glennerster, Rachel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

To overcome the problem of insufficient research and development (R&D) on vaccines for diseases concentrated in low-income countries, sponsors could commit to purchase viable vaccines if and when they are developed. One or more sponsors would commit to a minimum price that would be paid per...

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Privacy and Innovation

Goldfarb, Avi; Tucker, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

the extent and direction of data-based innovation. We also show that the impact of privacy regulation can be extremely … heterogeneous. Therefore, we argue that digitization means that privacy policy is now a part of innovation policy. …

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The Internet and Local Wages: Convergence or Divergence?

Goldfarb, Avi; Greenstein, Shane Mitchell; Forman, Chris - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

How did the diffusion of the internet affect regional wage inequality? We examine the relationship between business use of advanced internet technology and local variation in US wage growth between 1995 and 2000. We find no evidence that the internet contributed to regional wage convergence....

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Technology Adoption In and Out of Major Urban Areas: When Do Internal Firm Resources Matter Most?

Goldfarb, Avi; Greenstein, Shane Mitchell; Forman, Chris - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

How much do internal firm resources contribute to technology adoption in major urban locations, where the advantages from agglomeration are greatest? The authors address this question in the context of a business's decision to adopt advanced Internet technology. Drawing on a rich data set of...

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