NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

NBER Papers in Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship


2012
w17825 Emek Basker
Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector

w17816 T. Kirk White
Jerome P. Reiter
Amil Petrin

Plant-level Productivity and Imputation of Missing Data in U.S. Census Manufacturing Data

w17801 Jeremy D. Foltz
Ursula T. Aldana
Paul Laris

The Sahel's Silent Maize Revolution: Analyzing Maize Productivity in Mali at the Farm-level

w17793 Ajay K. Agrawal
Iain M. Cockburn
Alberto Galasso
Alexander Oettl

Why are Some Regions More Innovative than Others? The Role of Firm Size Diversity

w17792 David Popp
Nidhi Santen
Karen Fisher-Vanden
Mort Webster

Technology Variation vs. R&D Uncertainty: What Matters Most for Energy Patent Success?

w17773 Bronwyn H. Hall
Dietmar Harhoff

Recent Research on the Economics of Patents

w17769 Leonid Kogan
Dimitris Papanikolaou
Amit Seru
Noah Stoffman

Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth

w17760 Raghuram Rajan
The Corporation in Finance

w17750 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Effect of Pharmaceutical Innovation on the Functional Limitations of Elderly Americans Evidence from the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey

w17741 Karen Fisher-Vanden
Erin T. Mansur
Qiong (Juliana) Wang

Costly Blackouts? Measuring Productivity and Environmental Effects of Electricity Shortages

w17725 Mark J. Roberts
Daniel Yi Xu
Xiaoyan Fan
Shengxing Zhang

A Structural Model of Demand, Cost, and Export Market Selection for Chinese Footwear Producers


2011
w17717 Gregor Matvos
Amit Seru

Resource Allocation within Firms and Financial Market Dislocation: Evidence from Diversified Conglomerates

w17701 William R. Kerr
Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

w17693 Sean Dougherty
Verónica C. Frisancho Robles
Kala Krishna

Employment Protection Legislation and Plant-Level Productivity in India

w17659 Rui Castro
Gian Luca Clementi
Yoonsoo Lee

Cross-Sectoral Variation in The Volatility of Plant-Level Idiosyncratic Shocks

w17602 Ufuk Akcigit
Qingmin Liu

The Role of Information in Competitive Experimentation

w17596 Ejaz Ghani
William R. Kerr
Stephen D. O'Connell

Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

w17584 Casey B. Mulligan
Rising Labor Productivity during the 2008-9 Recession

w17577 William R. Kerr
William F. Lincoln
Prachi Mishra

The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

w17573 Ryan L. Lampe
Petra Moser

Patent Pools and the Direction of Innovation - Evidence from the 19th-century Sewing Machine Industry

w17546 Dani Rodrik
Unconditional Convergence

w17523 Marco Da Rin
Thomas F. Hellmann
Manju Puri

A survey of venture capital research

w17514 Ejaz Ghani
William R. Kerr
Stephen D. O'Connell

Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India

w17512 Jonathan Chiu
Cesaire Meh
Randall Wright

Innovation and Growth with Financial, and other, Frictions

w17487 Benjamin F. Jones
The Human Capital Stock: A Generalized Approach

w17472 Craig E. Landry
Andreas Lange
John A. List
Michael K. Price
Nicholas G. Rupp

Is There a 'Hidden Cost of Control' in Naturally-Occurring Markets? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

w17441 Albert N. Link
Christopher J. Ruhm

Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent

w17414 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Impact of Therapeutic Procedure Innovation on Hospital Patient Longevity: Evidence from Western Australia, 2000-2007

w17404 Lynne G. Zucker
Michael R. Darby
Jason Fong

Communitywide Database Designs for Tracking Innovation Impact: COMETS, STARS and Nanobank

w17400 Dani Rodrik
The Future of Economic Convergence

w17399 Steven J. Davis
John C. Haltiwanger
Ron S. Jarmin
Josh Lerner
Javier Miranda

Private Equity and Employment

w17385 Liran Einav
Theresa Kuchler
Jonathan D. Levin
Neel Sundaresan

Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets

w17373 Amil Petrin
Jagadeesh Sivadasan

Estimating Lost Output from Allocative Inefficiency, with an Application to Chile and Firing Costs

w17367 Alberto Galasso
Mark Schankerman
Carlos J. Serrano

Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights

w17341 Lucas W. Davis
Catherine Wolfram

Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power

w17336 C. Fritz Foley
William R. Kerr

Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity

w17311 Aubhik Khan
Julia K. Thomas

Credit Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Economy with Production Heterogeneity

w17304 Carlos J. Serrano
Estimating the Gains from Trade in the Market for Innovation: Evidence from the Transfer of Patents

w17265 Serguey Braguinsky
Lee G. Branstetter
Andre Regateiro

The Incredible Shrinking Portuguese Firm

w17249 Tamara Hafner
David Popp

China and India as Suppliers of Affordable Medicines to Developing Countries

w17246 Catherine Tucker
Network Stability, Network Externalities and Technology Adoption

w17231 Nicholas Bloom
Helena Schweiger
John Van Reenen

The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries

w17207 Marcel Fafchamps
David McKenzie
Simon R. Quinn
Christopher Woodruff

When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

w17204 Leonardo Iacovone
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik
Wolfgang Keller
James R. Tybout

Supplier Responses to Wal-Mart's Invasion of Mexico

w17188 Lee G. Branstetter
Chirantan Chatterjee
Matthew Higgins

Regulation and Welfare: Evidence from Paragraph IV Generic Entry in the Pharmaceutical Industry

w17181 Thomas Åstebro
Carlos J. Serrano

Business Partners, Financing, and the Commercialization of Inventions

w17178 Bronwyn H. Hall
Innovation and Productivity

w17175 Allan Collard-Wexler
John Asker
Jan De Loecker

Productivity Volatility and the Misallocation of Resources in Developing Economies

w17172 Christos Genakos
Kai-Uwe Kühn
John Van Reenen

Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability: Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets

w17124 Avi Goldfarb
Catherine Tucker

Privacy and Innovation

w17100 Nune Hovhannisyan
Wolfgang Keller

International Business Travel: An Engine of Innovation?

w17094 Charles I. Jones
Life and Growth

w17086 Gautam Gowrisankaran
Stanley S. Reynolds
Mario Samano

Intermittency and the Value of Renewable Energy

w17050 Annamaria Conti
Marie C. Thursby
Frank Rothaermel

Show Me the Right Stuff: Signals for High Tech Startups

w17046 Peter J. Huckfeldt
Christopher R. Knittel

Pharmaceutical Use Following Generic Entry: Paying Less and Buying Less

w17043 John P. Conley
Mario J. Crucini
Robert A. Driskill
Ali Sina Onder

Incentives and the Effects of Publication Lags on Life Cycle Research Productivity in Economics

w17041 Erik Hurst
Benjamin Wild Pugsley

What Do Small Businesses Do?

w17031 Nicola Lacetera
Lorenzo Zirulia

Individual Preferences, Organization, and Competition in a Model of R&D Incentive Provision

w17030 Nicola Lacetera
Devin G. Pope
Justin R. Sydnor

Heuristic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market

w17022 Romney B. Duffey
The Quantification of Systemic Risk and Stability: New Methods and Measures

w17013 Ashish Arora
Sharon Belenzon
Luis A. Rios

The Organization of R&D in American Corporations: The Determinants and Consequences of Decentralization

w17004 Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Matthew J. Neidell

The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity

w16993 Ralf Meisenzahl
Joel Mokyr

The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions

w16991 Edward N. Wolff
Pensions in the 2000s: the Lost Decade?

w16990 Amitabh Chandra
Anupam B. Jena
Jonathan S. Skinner

The Pragmatist’s Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research

w16988 Igal Hendel
Aviv Nevo

Intertemporal Price Discrimination in Storable Goods Markets

w16983 Petra Moser
Paul W. Rhode

Did Plant Patents Create the American Rose?

w16980 Joshua Gans
Fiona E. Murray

Funding Scientific Knowledge: Selection, Disclosure and the Public-Private Portfolio

w16958 Gita Gopinath
Brent Neiman

Trade Adjustment and Productivity in Large Crises

w16953 Amitabh Chandra
Jonathan S. Skinner

Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care

w16943 Thomas F. Hellmann
Enrico C. Perotti

The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets

w16937 Jonathan R. Clark
Robert Huckman

Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry

w16920 Bronwyn H. Hall
Christian Helmers

Innovation and Diffusion of Clean/Green Technology: Can Patent Commons Help?

w16918 Josh Lerner
Ulrike Malmendier

With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship

w16895 Barbara M. Fraumeni
Human Capital Accounts: Choice of Rates and Construction of Volume Indices

w16864 Edward N. Wolff
Spillovers, Linkages, and Productivity Growth in the US Economy, 1958 to 2007

w16853 Jeremy T. Fox
Valérie Smeets

Does Input Quality Drive Measured Differences in Firm Productivity?

w16840 Edward N. Wolff
Maury Gittleman

Inheritances and the Distribution of Wealth or Whatever Happened to the Great Inheritance Boom? Results from the SCF and PSID

w16823 Anna A. Levine Taub
Anton Kolotilin
Robert S. Gibbons
Ernst R. Berndt

The Diversity of Concentrated Prescribing Behavior: An Application to Antipsychotics

w16820 Ajay K. Agrawal
Christian Catalini
Avi Goldfarb

The Geography of Crowdfunding

w16806 Andrei A. Levchenko
Jing Zhang

The Evolution of Comparative Advantage: Measurement and Welfare Implications

w16785 Yi Qian
Counterfeiters: Foes or Friends?

w16780 Josh Lerner
Peter Tufano

The Consequences of Financial Innovation: A Counterfactual Research Agenda

w16778 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Ralph Ossa

A Global View of Productivity Growth in China

w16742 Charles I. Jones
Misallocation, Economic Growth, and Input-Output Economics

w16736 Sari Pekkala Kerr
William R. Kerr

Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

w16721 William Jack
Tavneet Suri

Mobile Money: The Economics of M-PESA

w16717 Nicholas Bloom
Mirko Draca
John Van Reenen

Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity

w16716 Jeffrey LaFrance
Rulon Pope
Jesse Tack

Risk Response in Agriculture

w16709 Ethan Ligon
Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance

w16700 Amil Petrin
T. Kirk White
Jerome P. Reiter

The Impact of Plant-level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth

w16692 Yi Qian
Hui Xie

Investigating the Dynamic Effects of Counterfeits with a Random Changepoint Simultaneous Equation Model

w16691 Oriana Bandiera
Andrea Prat
Luigi Guiso
Raffaella Sadun

Matching Firms, Managers and Incentives

w16683 Pierre Azoulay
Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Bhaven N. Sampat

The Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge Across Time and Space: Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine

w16666 Jonathan Eaton
Samuel Kortum
Brent Neiman
John Romalis

Trade and the Global Recession

w16658 Nicholas Bloom
Benn Eifert
Aprajit Mahajan
David McKenzie
John Roberts

Does Management Matter? Evidence from India


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