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Working Papers

2018

1. AI and Jobs: the role of demand
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (41)

2017

2. Diffusing New Technology without Dissipating Rents: Some Historical Case Studies of Knwoledge Sharing
   LEM Papers Series, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
   See also Journal Article Diffusing new technology without dissipating rents: some historical case studies of knowledge sharing, Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC (2019) View citations (2) (2019)

2011

3. A Generation of Software Patents
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (5)
4. Knowledge Sharing among Inventors: Some Historical Perspectives
   LEM Papers Series, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy View citations (1)
5. The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (48)
6. Was Mechanization De-Skilling? The Origins of Task-Biased Technical Change
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (14)

2010

7. Communicating Technical Knowledge
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation
   Also in Levine's Working Paper Archive, David K. Levine (2010)

2009

8. Evaluating the Economic Performance of Property Systems
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Evaluating the Economic Performance of Property Systems, Review of Law & Economics, De Gruyter (2009) View citations (2) (2009)
9. Imperfect Property Rights
   Working Papers, Research on Innovation
10. More Machines, Better Machines...Or Better Workers?
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (1)
11. Of Patents and Property
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (4)

2008

12. Accounting for Productivity Growth When Technical Change is Biased
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (2)
13. Do Patents Perform Like Property?
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (23)

2007

14. The Private Costs of Patent Litigation
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (4)

2006

15. A Comment on “Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?”
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (1)
16. Estimates of Firms' Patent Rents from Firm Market Value
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (2)
17. Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation
    Economics Working Papers, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science View citations (82)
    See also Journal Article Sequential innovation, patents, and imitation, RAND Journal of Economics, RAND Corporation (2009) View citations (288) (2009)
18. Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Innovation
    NajEcon Working Paper Reviews, www.najecon.org View citations (31)
19. The Value of U.S. Patents by Owner and Patent Characteristics
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article The value of U.S. patents by owner and patent characteristics, Research Policy, Elsevier (2008) View citations (201) (2008)

2005

20. Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation
    See also Journal Article Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2006) View citations (45) (2006)
21. The Patent Litigation Explosion
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (44)

2004

22. An Empirical Look at Software Patents
    Levine's Working Paper Archive, David K. Levine View citations (56)
    Also in Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (2004) View citations (25)
    See also Journal Article An Empirical Look at Software Patents, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell (2007) View citations (158) (2007)
23. Patent Thickets: Strategic Patenting of Complex Technologies
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (22)
24. Where Have All the Great Inventors Gone?
    Working Papers, Research on Innovation View citations (1)

1997

25. Productivity Adjustments and Learning-by-Doing as Human Capital
    Working Papers, U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies View citations (8)

Journal Articles

2022

1. The role of data for AI startup growth
   Research Policy, 2022, 51, (5) View citations (16)

2020

2. Firm-Level Automation: Evidence from the Netherlands
   AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, 389-93 View citations (23)
3. Industry Concentration and Information Technology
   Journal of Law and Economics, 2020, 63, (3), 531 - 555 View citations (35)

2019

4. Automation and jobs: when technology boosts employment*
   Economic Policy, 2019, 34, (100), 589-626 View citations (67)
5. Diffusing new technology without dissipating rents: some historical case studies of knowledge sharing
   Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019, 28, (2), 365-388 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Diffusing New Technology without Dissipating Rents: Some Historical Case Studies of Knwoledge Sharing, LEM Papers Series (2017) (2017)
6. Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor
   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019, 116, (14), 6531-6539 View citations (62)

2018

7. Trends in private patent costs and rents for publicly-traded United States firms
   International Review of Law and Economics, 2018, 56, (C), 53-69 View citations (6)

2014

8. Industry and Revolution: Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico. By Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2013. Pp. 351. $49.95, hardcover
   The Journal of Economic History, 2014, 74, (2), 642-644

2012

9. More Machines, Better Machines…or Better Workers?
   The Journal of Economic History, 2012, 72, (1), 44-74 View citations (10)

2009

10. Estimates of patent rents from firm market value
    Research Policy, 2009, 38, (10), 1604-1616 View citations (28)
11. Evaluating the Economic Performance of Property Systems
    Review of Law & Economics, 2009, 5, (3), 1037-1061 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper Evaluating the Economic Performance of Property Systems, Working Papers (2009) View citations (2) (2009)
12. Sequential innovation, patents, and imitation
    RAND Journal of Economics, 2009, 40, (4), 611-635 View citations (288)
    See also Working Paper Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation, Economics Working Papers (2006) View citations (82) (2006)

2008

13. The value of U.S. patents by owner and patent characteristics
    Research Policy, 2008, 37, (5), 932-945 View citations (201)
    See also Working Paper The Value of U.S. Patents by Owner and Patent Characteristics, Working Papers (2006) View citations (6) (2006)

2007

14. An Empirical Look at Software Patents
    Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2007, 16, (1), 157-189 View citations (158)
    See also Working Paper An Empirical Look at Software Patents, Levine's Working Paper Archive (2004) View citations (56) (2004)

2006

15. Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes
    American Economic Review, 2006, 96, (2), 77-81 View citations (45)
    See also Working Paper Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes, Working Papers (2005) (2005)

2005

16. Patents and the diffusion of technical information
    Economics Letters, 2005, 86, (1), 121-128 View citations (38)

2004

17. Holdup and licensing of cumulative innovations with private information
    Economics Letters, 2004, 82, (3), 321-326 View citations (41)
18. The software patent experiment
    Business Review, 2004, (Q3), 22-32 View citations (8)

2003

19. IT Adoption Costs and Productivity: A Reply to Diego Comin
    Review of Economic Dynamics, 2003, 6, (1), 252-262 View citations (1)
20. Technology and Learning by Factory Workers: The Stretch-Out at Lowell, 1842
    The Journal of Economic History, 2003, 63, (1), 33-64 View citations (22)

2002

21. Technology Adoption Costs and Productivity Growth: The Transition to Information Technology
    Review of Economic Dynamics, 2002, 5, (2), 443-469 View citations (49)

Chapters

2018

1. Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: The Role of Demand
   A chapter in The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda, 2018, pp 291-307 View citations (10)

2008

2. 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 (177)