Patent landscaping involves the identification of patents in a specific technology area to understand the business, economic, and policy implications of technological change. Traditionally, patent landscapes were constructed using keyword and classification queries, a labor-intensive process...

Automobile dealers form trading relationships in order to satisfy uncertain demand (Anupindi, Bassok and Zemel 2001; Granot and Sosic 2003; Pairolero 2016). This paper explores the decision to transship inventory in terms of sales associate ability or experience. The primary result is that an...

This paper analyzes optimal retailer pricing in dense transshipment networks. Given the complexities associated with logistic profit functions (Hanson and Martin 1996; Hongmin and Woonghee 2011), a key insight of the paper is that prices become much easier to analyze as the network becomes dense....

Although the distribution of valuable inventions is highly skewed, the economics of superstars and increasing returns may increase inequality in inventor innovative activity. This paper develops a theoretical model to identify the relationship between increasing returns and inventor innovative...

Prior research argues that USPTO first-action allowance rates increase with examiner seniority and experience, suggesting lower patent quality. However, we show that the increased use of examiner's amendments account for this prior empirical finding. Further, the mechanism reduces patent...

This paper analyzes incompleteness in automobile dealer trade networks. Inter dealer trade data from Adamson Motors, a medium sized dealer in Rochester Minnesota, shows a fractured and incomplete dealer trade network. Further, large trade volumes are generated by relatively few trade partners. A...