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Working Papers

2011

1. A Generation of Software Patents
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation
2. Knowledge Sharing among Inventors: Some Historical Perspectives
   LEM Papers Series, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
3. The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (1)
4. Was Mechanization De-Skilling? The Origins of Task-Biased Technical Change
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (1)

2010

5. Communicating Technical Knowledge
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (1)
   Also in Levine's Working Paper Archive, David K. Levine (2010) View citations (2)

2009

6. Evaluating the Economic Performance of Property Systems
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation
   See also Journal Article in Review of Law & Economics (2009)
7. Imperfect Property Rights
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation
8. More Machines, Better Machines...Or Better Workers?
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (1)
9. Of Patents and Property
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (1)

2008

10. Accounting for Productivity Growth When Technical Change is Biased
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (1)
11. Do Patents Perform Like Property?
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (2)

2007

12. The Private Costs of Patent Litigation
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (2)

2006

13. A Comment on “Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?”
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (1)
14. Estimates of Firms' Patent Rents from Firm Market Value
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (2)
15. Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation
    Economics Working Papers, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science View citations (75)
    See also Journal Article in RAND Journal of Economics (2009)
16. Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Innovation
    NajEcon Working Paper Reviews, www.najecon.org View citations (8)
17. The Value of U.S. Patents by Owner and Patent Characteristics
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article in Research Policy (2008)

2005

18. Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2006)
19. The Patent Litigation Explosion
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (14)

2004

20. An Empirical Look at Software Patents
    Levine's Working Paper Archive, David K. Levine View citations (20)
    Also in Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (2004) View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2007)
21. Patent Thickets: Strategic Patenting of Complex Technologies
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (17)
22. Where Have All the Great Inventors Gone?
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation

1997

23. Productivity Adjustments and Learning-by-Doing as Human Capital
    Working Papers, U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies View citations (6)

Journal Articles

2012

1. More Machines, Better Machines…or Better Workers?
   The Journal of Economic History, 2012, 72, (01), 44-74

2009

2. Estimates of patent rents from firm market value
   Research Policy, 2009, 38, (10), 1604-1616 View citations (2)
3. Evaluating the Economic Performance of Property Systems
   Review of Law & Economics, 2009, 5, (3), 4 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper (2009)
4. Sequential innovation, patents, and imitation
   RAND Journal of Economics, 2009, 40, (4), 611-635 View citations (39)
   See also Working Paper (2006)

2008

5. The value of U.S. patents by owner and patent characteristics
   Research Policy, 2008, 37, (5), 932-945 View citations (19)
   See also Working Paper (2006)

2007

6. An Empirical Look at Software Patents
   Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2007, 16, (1), 157-189 View citations (53)
   See also Working Paper (2004)

2006

7. Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes
   American Economic Review, 2006, 96, (2), 77-81 View citations (10)
   See also Working Paper (2005)

2005

8. Patents and the diffusion of technical information
   Economics Letters, 2005, 86, (1), 121-128 View citations (11)

2004

9. Holdup and licensing of cumulative innovations with private information
   Economics Letters, 2004, 82, (3), 321-326 View citations (14)
10. The software patent experiment
    Business Review, 2004, (Q3), 22-32 View citations (7)

2003

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

2002

13. Technology Adoption Costs and Productivity Growth: The Transition to Information Technology
    Review of Economic Dynamics, 2002, 5, (2), 443-469 View citations (20)

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 View citations (13)