propose estimating nested logit demand models, using household panel data to automate the assignment of products to nests. Our …

We build a model of firm entry and exit and show how returns to scale shape firm survival, the equilibrium productivity … and size distributions and firm concentration. High productivity dispersion and high concentration ratios need not reflect … productivity dispersion across establishments. Indeed, industries with lower returns to scale are characterized by higher …

Are we underestimating the costs of patent protection? Scholars have long recognized that patent law is a double … past, policymakers striving to balance the costs and benefits of patents have analyzed patent law through the lens of … effect of patent law has been systematically overlooked. This Article begins to fill this void and demonstrates that …

data (~3.63 million applications) from three different United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) sources - Patent … patenting process. We analysed cross sectional and temporal variation in the patent issue rates, entry pend-ency, office actions …, Korea (South), Taiwan, China and India).The patent issue rate differed substantially between technology centers and …