Michele Boldrin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1180684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michele Boldrin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michele |
| FAMILY NAME | Boldrin |
| SIGNATURE | BOLDRIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Economic Policy Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Intellectual Property
Intellectual property is a propaganda term used by proponents of copyrights and patents to promote the idea that government‐enforced monopolies over ideas and parts of ideas share the beneficial effects of property. In fact, economic research shows that both copyrights and patents do more economic harm than good. In many areas, including copyright and software patents, the only reasonable policy conclusion is abolition. In other areas such as pha…
What's Intellectual Property Good for
La controverse sur les droits de propriété intellectuelle (brevets et droits d’auteur) est là pour durer. L’accumulation régulière de données empiriques mettant en doute les bénéfices supposés des droits de propriété intellectuelle pour l’innovation et la créativité conduit un nombre croissant de chercheurs à questionner les idées reçues. Nous avons œuvré en ce sens depuis longtemps, et les recherches récentes semblent justifier à la fois notre a…
The Case Against Patents
The case against patents can be summarized briefly: there is no empirical evidence that they serve to increase innovation and productivity, unless productivity is identified with the number of patents awarded-which, as evidence shows, has no correlation with measured productivity. Both theory and evidence suggest that while patents can have a partial equilibrium effect of improving incentives to invent, the general equilibrium effect on innovatio…
Growth and Cycles, in the Mode of Marx and Schumpeter
I propose a theory of endogenous growth and cycles under competitive conditions. Firms choose how many workers to hire, how much to invest, and which technologies to use. New capacity, embodying labor‐saving technologies, is costlier than old one but allows for a lower wage bill. The interaction between labor‐saving innovations and changes in the relative price of labor is the source of growth cycles
Against Intellectual Monopoly
'Intellectual property' - patents and copyrights - have become controversial. We witness teenagers being sued for 'pirating' music - and we observe AIDS patients in Africa dying due to lack of ability to pay for drugs that are high priced to satisfy patent holders. Are patents and copyrights essential to thriving creation and innovation - do we need them so that we all may enjoy fine music and good health? Across time and space the resounding ans…
Assessing the efficiency of public education and pensions
Inequality and convergence in Europe's regions
Europe's regions Income disparities and regional policies In this paper we take a critical look at current European regional policies. First, we document the motivation for such policies, that is, the large income disparities across the regions of the EU15. Large disparities are certainly present. Second, we illustrate the various instruments adopted and discuss their underpinnings in established economic theories. Next, we look at available data…
Labor Contracts and Business Cycles
This paper investigates the claim that real business cycle models perform poorly in matching real-world aggregate labor market behavior because observed real wage payments do not correspond to the actual marginal productivity of labor but contain an insurance component not accounted for by the Walrasian pricing mechanism. We introduce contractual arrangements between employees and employers and use the theory of optimal contracts to derive an equ…
Chaotic Economic Dynamics
The Case Against Patents
The case against patents can be summarized briefly: there is no empirical evidence that they serve to increase innovation and productivity, unless productivity is identified with the number of patents awarded-which, as evidence shows, has no correlation with measured productivity. Both theory and evidence suggest that while patents can have a partial equilibrium effect of improving incentives to invent, the general equilibrium effect on innovatio…
Assessing the efficiency of public education and pensions
Labor Contracts and Business Cycles
This paper investigates the claim that real business cycle models perform poorly in matching real-world aggregate labor market behavior because observed real wage payments do not correspond to the actual marginal productivity of labor but contain an insurance component not accounted for by the Walrasian pricing mechanism. We introduce contractual arrangements between employees and employers and use the theory of optimal contracts to derive an equ…
What's Intellectual Property Good for
La controverse sur les droits de propriété intellectuelle (brevets et droits d’auteur) est là pour durer. L’accumulation régulière de données empiriques mettant en doute les bénéfices supposés des droits de propriété intellectuelle pour l’innovation et la créativité conduit un nombre croissant de chercheurs à questionner les idées reçues. Nous avons œuvré en ce sens depuis longtemps, et les recherches récentes semblent justifier à la fois notre a…
Chaotic Economic Dynamics
Labor Contracts and Business Cycles
This paper investigates the claim that real business cycle models perform poorly in matching real-world aggregate labor market behavior because observed real wage payments do not correspond to the actual marginal productivity of labor but contain an insurance component not accounted for by the Walrasian pricing mechanism. We introduce contractual arrangements between employees and employers and use the theory of optimal contracts to derive an equ…
Inequality and convergence in Europe's regions
Europe's regions Income disparities and regional policies In this paper we take a critical look at current European regional policies. First, we document the motivation for such policies, that is, the large income disparities across the regions of the EU15. Large disparities are certainly present. Second, we illustrate the various instruments adopted and discuss their underpinnings in established economic theories. Next, we look at available data…
Against Intellectual Monopoly
'Intellectual property' - patents and copyrights - have become controversial. We witness teenagers being sued for 'pirating' music - and we observe AIDS patients in Africa dying due to lack of ability to pay for drugs that are high priced to satisfy patent holders. Are patents and copyrights essential to thriving creation and innovation - do we need them so that we all may enjoy fine music and good health? Across time and space the resounding ans…
Assessing the efficiency of public education and pensions
Growth and Cycles, in the Mode of Marx and Schumpeter
I propose a theory of endogenous growth and cycles under competitive conditions. Firms choose how many workers to hire, how much to invest, and which technologies to use. New capacity, embodying labor‐saving technologies, is costlier than old one but allows for a lower wage bill. The interaction between labor‐saving innovations and changes in the relative price of labor is the source of growth cycles
What's Intellectual Property Good for
La controverse sur les droits de propriété intellectuelle (brevets et droits d’auteur) est là pour durer. L’accumulation régulière de données empiriques mettant en doute les bénéfices supposés des droits de propriété intellectuelle pour l’innovation et la créativité conduit un nombre croissant de chercheurs à questionner les idées reçues. Nous avons œuvré en ce sens depuis longtemps, et les recherches récentes semblent justifier à la fois notre a…
The Case Against Patents
The case against patents can be summarized briefly: there is no empirical evidence that they serve to increase innovation and productivity, unless productivity is identified with the number of patents awarded-which, as evidence shows, has no correlation with measured productivity. Both theory and evidence suggest that while patents can have a partial equilibrium effect of improving incentives to invent, the general equilibrium effect on innovatio…
Intellectual Property
Intellectual property is a propaganda term used by proponents of copyrights and patents to promote the idea that government‐enforced monopolies over ideas and parts of ideas share the beneficial effects of property. In fact, economic research shows that both copyrights and patents do more economic harm than good. In many areas, including copyright and software patents, the only reasonable policy conclusion is abolition. In other areas such as pha…
Economics (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Innovation Policy and RD (4 works) · Intellectual Property and Patents (4 works) · Economic theories and models (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Macroeconomics (3 works) · Market economy (3 works) · Microeconomics (3 works)