Papers

2009

"The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization", by Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
Mimeo, May, 2009
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"A Theory of Rule Development", by Glenn Ellison and Richard Holden
Mimeo, March, 2009
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"Winning Play in Spectrum Auctions", by Jeremy Bulow, Jonathan Levin and Paul Milgrom
Mimeo, February, 2009
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"The Litigation of Financial Innovations", by Josh Lerner
Mimeo, circa 2009
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"The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Dues", by Josh Lerner
Mimeo, circa 2009
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2008

"Dynamic Merger Review", by Volker Nocke and Michael Whinston
Mimeo, November, 2008
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"Experimentation, Patents, and Innovation", by Daron Acemoglu, Kostas Bimpikis and Asuman Ozdaglar
Mimeo, October, 2008
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"A Search Cost Model of Obfuscation", by Glenn Ellison and Alexander Wolitzky
Mimeo, September, 2008
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"Optimal Information Disclosure", by Luis Rayo and Ilya Segal
Mimeo, September, 2008
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"A Nonobvious Discussion about Patents", by Suzanne Scotchmer
Mimeo, August 2008
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2007

"An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: from Annual Computer Data to Monthly Data on other Goods", by Timothy Erickson and Ariel Pakes
Mimeo, February 2007
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2006

"Is Peer Review in Decline?", by Glenn Ellison
Mimeo, December 2006
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""Quality" Adjustment for the High Frequency Price Indexes Used in the CPI: An Experimental Index for TV's", by Timothy Erickson and Ariel Pakes
Mimeo, December 2006
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"State-Dependent Intellectual Property Rights Policy", by Daron Acemoglu and Ufuk Akcigit
Mimeo, December 2006
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"A Theory of Community Formation and Social Hierarchy", by Susan Athey and Saumitra Jha
Mimeo, November 2006
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"A New Proof of Uzawa's Steady-State Growth Theory", by Charles I. Jones and Dean Scrimgeour
Mimeo, October 2006
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"The Weak Link Theory of Economic Development", by Charles Jones
Mimeo, October 2006
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"Computing Crime: Information Technology, Police Effectiveness and the Organization of Policing", by Luis Garicano and Paul Heaton
CEPR DP n.5837, September 2006
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"Coordinating Failures in Product Selection in Monopolisitc Competition Models of Innovation", by Kiminori Matsuyama
Mimeo, September 2006
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"Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products", by Yooki Park and Suzanne Scotchmer
Mimeo, August 2006
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"Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm", by Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Claire Lelarge, John Van Reenen and Fabrizio Zilibotti
Mimeo, August 2006
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"Antitrust Policy toward Horizontal Mergers", by Michael D. Whinston
Mimeo, July 2006
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"Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm", by Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer
Mimeo, March 2006, forthcoming in T. Hendershott, ed. Handbook of Economics and Information Systems. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
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"Dynamics of Open Source Movements", by Susan Athey and Glenn Ellison
Mimeo, January 2006
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"Beyond Icebergs: Globalization as Biased Technical Change", by Kiminori Matsuyama
Mimeo, January 2006
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"Profit Neutrality in Licensing: the Boundary between Antitrust Law and Patent Law", by Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer
to appear in American Law and Economics Review, 2006
[Review Online]

2005

"Antitrust in Innovative Industries", by Ilya Segal and Michael D. Whinston
Mimeo, December 2005
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"The Dynamics of Open Source Contributors", by Josh Lerner, Parag Pathak and Jean Tirole
Mimeo, December 2005
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"Equilibrium Bias of Technology", by Daron Acemoglu
Mimeo, December 2005
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"Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy", by Luis Garicano and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Mimeo, December 2005
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"Language and the Theory of the Firm", by Jacques Cremer, Luis Garicano and Andrea Prat
Mimeo, November 2005
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"The Steady-State Growth Theorem: Understanding Uzawa (1961)", by Charles Jones and Dean Scrimgeour
Mimeo, November 2005
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"The Value of Information in Growth and Development", by Charles Jones
Mimeo, November 2005
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"Picking Winners in Rounds of Elimination", by Suzanne Scotchmer
Mimeo, October 2005
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"Moment Inequalities and their Application", by Ariel Pakes, J. Porter, Kate Ho and Joy Ishii
Mimeo, April 2005
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"Still Looking for Lost Profits: the Case of Horizontal Competition", by Mark Schankerman and Suzanne Scotchmer
Mimeo, 2005
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"Trolls on State Street?: The Litigation of Financial Patents, 1976-2005", by Josh Lerner
Mimeo
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