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Working Papers

2008

1. Accounting for Productivity Growth When Technical Change is Biased
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations
2. Do Patents Perform Like Property?
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations
3. More Machines or Better Machines?
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations

2007

4. The Private Costs of Patent Litigation
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation

2006

5. A Comment on “Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?”
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations
6. Estimates of Firms' Patent Rents from Firm Market Value
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations
7. Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation
   Economics Working Papers, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science View citations
   See also Journal Article in RAND Journal of Economics (2009)
8. Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Innovation
   NajEcon Working Paper Reviews, www.najecon.org View citations
9. The Value of U.S. Patents by Owner and Patent Characteristics
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations
   See also Journal Article in Research Policy (2008)

2005

10. Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2006)
11. The Patent Litigation Explosion
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations

2004

12. An Empirical Look at Software Patents
    Levine's Working Paper Archive, David K. Levine View citations
    Also in Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (2004) View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2007)
13. Patent Thickets: Strategic Patenting of Complex Technologies
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations
14. Where Have All the Great Inventors Gone?
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation

1997

15. Productivity Adjustments and Learning-by-Doing as Human Capital
    Working Papers, U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies View citations

Journal Articles

2009

1. Sequential innovation, patents, and imitation
   RAND Journal of Economics, 2009, 40, (4), 611-635
   See also Working Paper (2006)

2008

2. The value of U.S. patents by owner and patent characteristics
   Research Policy, 2008, 37, (5), 932-945 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2006)

2007

3. An Empirical Look at Software Patents
   Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2007, 16, (1), 157-189 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2004)

2006

4. Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes
   American Economic Review, 2006, 96, (2), 77-81 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2005)

2005

5. Patents and the diffusion of technical information
   Economics Letters, 2005, 86, (1), 121-128 View citations

2004

6. Holdup and licensing of cumulative innovations with private information
   Economics Letters, 2004, 82, (3), 321-326 View citations
7. The software patent experiment
   Business Review, 2004, (Q3), 22-32 View citations

2003

8. IT Adoption Costs and Productivity: A Reply to Diego Comin
   Review of Economic Dynamics, 2003, 6, (1), 252-262
9. Technology and Learning by Factory Workers: The Stretch-Out at Lowell, 1842
   The Journal of Economic History, 2003, 63, (01), 33-64 View citations

2002

10. Technology Adoption Costs and Productivity Growth: The Transition to Information Technology
    Review of Economic Dynamics, 2002, 5, (2), 443-469 View citations

Chapters

2008

1. Introduction to Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
   A chapter in Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk, 2008