The market for ideas makes new combinations of inventions to form complex innovations such smart phones and mobile broadband networks. I show that bargaining in the market for ideas provides efficient coordination with complementary inventions. Extending neoclassical economic tools to the market...

Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find that: (i) the positive association between parental income...