standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more …

We present several empirical facts about trends in marketing investment in the US. We also present estimates of the …

investment decisions to justify, and capitalize on, these manipulations. We construct a measure of the sensitivity of reported … motivations influences significant managerial investment decisions …

briefly presented. Then the empirical literature that relates Tobin's q or the market to book value ratio to R&D and patent … value of the modern manufacturing corporation is strongly related to its knowledge assets, and that patent measures contain …

presents estimates of the effect of patent protection on the depreciation rate. Results suggest that the yearly depreciation … averaging 8-9 per cent. Patent protection slows down the erosion of profits by about 1-2 percentage points …

This paper examines the empirical anomaly that in a sample of 5811 patents on which US faculty are listed as inventors …, 26% of the patents are assigned solely to firms rather than to the faculty member's university as is dictated by US … function of patent characteristics, university policy, and inventor fields in order to examine the extent to which outside …

In this article we develop a model to analyze patent-protected R&D investment projects when there is (imperfect …. These benefits to society are countered by increased total investment costs in R&D and lower aggregate value of the R …&D investment projects …

In recent years, US investment has been lackluster, despite rising valuations. Key explanations include growing rents … -- reflected in average Q -- and investment -- reflected in marginal q -- can be decomposed into three terms: the value of …

, collectively known as "intangible capital" can explain much of the weakness in physical capital investment since 2000. Moreover … some also have legal protections (e.g., patents or copyrights). These characteristics may have enabled the rise in industry …