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Who Counts in Evaluating the Effects of Air Pollution Policies on Households? Non-Market Valuation in the Presence of Dependencies
Smith, V. Kerry; Evans, Mary F.; Poulos, Christine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Individuals who are likely to realize the largest benefits from improvements in air quality often depend on other members of their households to make time or monetary contributions to their care. The presence of these dependency relationships among household members poses challenges for benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085384
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Valuing a Homeland Security Policy: Countermeasures for the Threats from Shoulder Mounted Missiles
Smith, V. Kerry; Mansfield, Carol; Clayton, Laurel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper reports estimates for the ex ante tradeoffs for three specific homeland security policies that all address a terrorist attack on commercial aircraft with shoulder mounted missiles. Our analysis focuses on the willingness to pay for anti-missile laser jamming countermeasures mounted on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718171
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Estimating the General Equilibrium Benefits of Large Policy Changes: The Clean Air Act Revisited
Smith, V. Kerry; Banzhaf, Spencer; Sieg, Holger; Walsh, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
This paper reports the first comprehensive approach for measuring the general equilibrium willingness to pay for large changes in air quality. It is based on a well defined locational equilibrium model. The approach allows estimation of households' indirect utility function and the underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720605
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Do Citizens Want the Truth about Terrorist Threats Regardless of the Consequences?
Smith, V. Kerry; Mansfield, Carol; Klaiber, H. Allen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper proposes the use of consumers' preferences in formulating policies for keeping secret information about terrorist activities and threats that might compromise future security. We report the results from two surveys indicating that people have clear preferences for full disclosure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548804
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The New Economics of Equilibrium Sorting and its Transformational Role for Policy Evaluation
Smith, V. Kerry; Kuminoff, Nicolai V.; Timmins, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Households "sort" across neighborhoods according to their wealth and their preferences for public goods, social characteristics, and commuting opportunities. The aggregation of these individual choices in markets and in other institutions influences the supply of amenities and local public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565078
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Patent Laws and Innovation: Evidence from Economic History
Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2) May patent laws influence the direction - as opposed to the rate …What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic … to address problems with the current patent system: 3) How do patent pools, as a mechanism to mitigate litigation risks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950825
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Copyright and the Profitability of Authorship: Evidence from Payments to Writers in the Romantic Period
MacGarvie, Megan; Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Proponents of stronger copyright terms have argued that stronger copyright terms encourage creativity by increasing the profitability of authorship. Empirical evidence, however, is scarce, because data on the profitability of authorship is typically not available to the public. Moreover at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264932
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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
the effects of a patent pool on innovation. Contrary to theoretical predictions, the sewing machine pool appears to have …Members of a patent pool agree to use a set of patents as if they were jointly owned by all members and license them as … a package to other firms. Regulators favor pools as a means to encourage innovation: Pools are expected to reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025643
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Why Don't Inventors Patent?
Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
's fairs between 1851 and 1915. Exhibition data show that the industry where an innovation is made is the single most important … patent. The discovery of the periodic table in 1869 offers an opportunity to test this idea. Exhibition data show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580487
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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
foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensing after World War I under the Trading with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008624571