Jeremy Stein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3769014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Stein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Stein |
| SIGNATURE | STEIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assistant Professor in Finance, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Staff economists with the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 197 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Evaluating inventive activity: The cost of nineteenth-century UK patents and the fallibility of renewal data
It has long been recognized that counting patents offers a poor gauge of the extent and value of inventive activity, not least because the quality of patented inventions varies enormously. The Schankerman-Pakes model provides a valuable alternative gauge that utilizes the data from renewal fees which are regularly paid to keep a patent in force. This article suggests, however, that the model's application to nineteenth-century UK patents may unde…
Agency, Information and Corporate Investment
Making waves: The Royal Navy's management of invention and innovation in steam shipping, 1815–1832 1
This paper explores the sources of invention and innovation in steam shipping, the distribution of funding and risk between the state and the private sector, and the Royal Navy's management of innovation, during the experimental period of steam power's adoption at sea. It identifies two intersecting channels through which steam‐related innovations reached the Royal Navy. First, “packages” of innovations were embedded in the marine engines that we…
Migration as a Business: The Case of Trafficking
A case is made for treating international migration as a global business which has both legitimate and illegitimate sides. The migration business is conceived as a system of institutionalized networks with complex profit and loss accounts, including a set of institutions, agents and individuals each of which stands to make a commercial gain. The article focuses on migrant trafficking, the core of the illegitimate business. Migrant trafficking, a …
Time, space and social discipline: Factory life in Cornwall, Ontario, 1867–1893
The Task Force Report: The Reasoning Behind the Recommendations
This paper was prepared for the Symposium on the [October 1987] Stock Market Crash, held February 8, 1988, at Princeton University. The article provides a framework for thinking about the recommendations made by the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms. Three conclusions can be drawn from the Task Force's findings: First, the proper focus of analysis of the events of the October crash should be on "market mechanisms" rather than on fundam…
Migration as a Business: The Case of Trafficking
A case is made for treating international migration as a global business which has both legitimate and illegitimate sides. The migration business is conceived as a system of institutionalized networks with complex profit and loss accounts, including a set of institutions, agents and individuals each of which stands to make a commercial gain. The article focuses on migrant trafficking, the core of the illegitimate business. Migrant trafficking, a …
Agency, Information and Corporate Investment
Evaluating inventive activity: The cost of nineteenth-century UK patents and the fallibility of renewal data
It has long been recognized that counting patents offers a poor gauge of the extent and value of inventive activity, not least because the quality of patented inventions varies enormously. The Schankerman-Pakes model provides a valuable alternative gauge that utilizes the data from renewal fees which are regularly paid to keep a patent in force. This article suggests, however, that the model's application to nineteenth-century UK patents may unde…
Time, space and social discipline: Factory life in Cornwall, Ontario, 1867–1893
The Task Force Report: The Reasoning Behind the Recommendations
This paper was prepared for the Symposium on the [October 1987] Stock Market Crash, held February 8, 1988, at Princeton University. The article provides a framework for thinking about the recommendations made by the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms. Three conclusions can be drawn from the Task Force's findings: First, the proper focus of analysis of the events of the October crash should be on "market mechanisms" rather than on fundam…
Time, space and social discipline: Factory life in Cornwall, Ontario, 1867–1893
Migration as a Business: The Case of Trafficking
A case is made for treating international migration as a global business which has both legitimate and illegitimate sides. The migration business is conceived as a system of institutionalized networks with complex profit and loss accounts, including a set of institutions, agents and individuals each of which stands to make a commercial gain. The article focuses on migrant trafficking, the core of the illegitimate business. Migrant trafficking, a …
Making waves: The Royal Navy's management of invention and innovation in steam shipping, 1815–1832 1
This paper explores the sources of invention and innovation in steam shipping, the distribution of funding and risk between the state and the private sector, and the Royal Navy's management of innovation, during the experimental period of steam power's adoption at sea. It identifies two intersecting channels through which steam‐related innovations reached the Royal Navy. First, “packages” of innovations were embedded in the marine engines that we…
Agency, Information and Corporate Investment
Evaluating inventive activity: The cost of nineteenth-century UK patents and the fallibility of renewal data
It has long been recognized that counting patents offers a poor gauge of the extent and value of inventive activity, not least because the quality of patented inventions varies enormously. The Schankerman-Pakes model provides a valuable alternative gauge that utilizes the data from renewal fees which are regularly paid to keep a patent in force. This article suggests, however, that the model's application to nineteenth-century UK patents may unde…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Management (3 works) · Economic theories and models (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)