legal environments and technological innovation. I examine firms' use of indirect price discrimination in response to U …

about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their …

This paper studies a simple model of experimentation and innovation. Our analysis suggests that patents may improve the … project to implement. A successful innovation can be copied by other firms. Symmetric equilibria (where actions do not depend … equilibria). In contrast to patents, subsidies to experimentation, research, or innovation cannot typically achieve this …

This paper examines the effect of environmental policies on technological innovation in the specific case of renewable …

I study the channels through which health insurance influences medical innovation. Following Medicare and Medicaid … per resident. Consistent with historical case studies, Medical innovation's determinants extend beyond the potential … revenues associated with global market size; a physician driven process of innovation-while-doing appears to play a central …

This paper examines the relationship between innovation and firms' dependence on external capital by analyzing the … innovation activities of privately-held and publicly-traded firms. We find that public firms in external finance dependent … in internal finance dependent industries do not have a significantly better innovation profile than matched private firms …

fuels and can over or under-incentivize innovation. These results highlight the potential negative efficiency effects of the …

We offer new evidence on indigenous innovation and intellectual returnees by estimating the relationship between … and also promote neighboring firm innovation. We find no tendency for export intensive firms to patent more. Controlling …

High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for … home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and …