Petra Moser
Biographic Data
| ID | 3823206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petra Moser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petra |
| FAMILY NAME | Moser |
| SIGNATURE | MOSER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Copyrights and Creativity
This paper exploits variation in the adoption of copyrights within Italy—due to the timing of Napoléon's military victories—to investigate the causal effects of copyrights on creativity. Baseline regressions compare changes in opera production across Italian states with and without copyrights. This analysis yields three main results. First, the adoption of copyrights led to a significant increase in the number of newly created operas. Second, cop…
Compulsory licensing and innovation – Historical evidence from German patents after WWI
German Jewish Émigrés and US Invention
Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized US science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the United States, we compare changes in patenting by US inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other German chemists. Patenting by US inventors increased by 31 percent in émigré fields. Regressions which instrument for émigré fields with pre-1933 fields of dismissed German chemists…
Patents and Innovation
What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic history can help to inform important policy questions that have been difficult to answer with modern data: For example, does the existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? What proportion of innovations is patented? Is this share constant across industries and over time? How does patenting affect the diffusion of knowled…
Compulsory Licensing
Compulsory licensing allows firms in developing countries to produce foreign-owned inventions without the consent of foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensing after World War I under the Trading with the Enemy Act to examine the effects of compulsory licensing on domestic invention. Difference-in-differences analyses of nearly 130,000 chemical inventions suggest that compulsory licensing increased domestic …
Taste-based discrimination evidence from a shift in ethnic preferences after WWI
Do Patents Weaken the Localization of Innovations? Evidence from World's Fairs
This article takes advantage of an exogenous shift towards patenting in chemicals to test whether patents contribute to the geographic diffusion of innovations. Data on U.S. innovations that were exhibited at four world fairs between 1851 and 1915 suggest that innovative activity became less localized after patenting rates increased. These changes cannot be explained by changes in the localization of chemical production or economy-wide changes in…
In Memoriam
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How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs
Studies of innovation have focused on the effects of patent laws on the number of innovations, but have ignored effects on the direction of technological change. This paper introduces a new dataset of close to fifteen thousand innovations at the Crystal Palace World's Fair in 1851 and at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 to examine the effects of patent laws on the direction of innovation. The paper tests the following argument: if innovative act…
Determinants of Innovation Evidence from 19th Century World Fairs
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Patents and Innovation
What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic history can help to inform important policy questions that have been difficult to answer with modern data: For example, does the existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? What proportion of innovations is patented? Is this share constant across industries and over time? How does patenting affect the diffusion of knowled…
Taste-based discrimination evidence from a shift in ethnic preferences after WWI
Do Patents Weaken the Localization of Innovations? Evidence from World's Fairs
This article takes advantage of an exogenous shift towards patenting in chemicals to test whether patents contribute to the geographic diffusion of innovations. Data on U.S. innovations that were exhibited at four world fairs between 1851 and 1915 suggest that innovative activity became less localized after patenting rates increased. These changes cannot be explained by changes in the localization of chemical production or economy-wide changes in…
Copyrights and Creativity
This paper exploits variation in the adoption of copyrights within Italy—due to the timing of Napoléon's military victories—to investigate the causal effects of copyrights on creativity. Baseline regressions compare changes in opera production across Italian states with and without copyrights. This analysis yields three main results. First, the adoption of copyrights led to a significant increase in the number of newly created operas. Second, cop…
Compulsory licensing and innovation – Historical evidence from German patents after WWI
Determinants of Innovation Evidence from 19th Century World Fairs
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Determinants of Innovation Evidence from 19th Century World Fairs
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs
Studies of innovation have focused on the effects of patent laws on the number of innovations, but have ignored effects on the direction of technological change. This paper introduces a new dataset of close to fifteen thousand innovations at the Crystal Palace World's Fair in 1851 and at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 to examine the effects of patent laws on the direction of innovation. The paper tests the following argument: if innovative act…
In Memoriam
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Do Patents Weaken the Localization of Innovations? Evidence from World's Fairs
This article takes advantage of an exogenous shift towards patenting in chemicals to test whether patents contribute to the geographic diffusion of innovations. Data on U.S. innovations that were exhibited at four world fairs between 1851 and 1915 suggest that innovative activity became less localized after patenting rates increased. These changes cannot be explained by changes in the localization of chemical production or economy-wide changes in…
Compulsory Licensing
Compulsory licensing allows firms in developing countries to produce foreign-owned inventions without the consent of foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensing after World War I under the Trading with the Enemy Act to examine the effects of compulsory licensing on domestic invention. Difference-in-differences analyses of nearly 130,000 chemical inventions suggest that compulsory licensing increased domestic …
Taste-based discrimination evidence from a shift in ethnic preferences after WWI
Patents and Innovation
What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic history can help to inform important policy questions that have been difficult to answer with modern data: For example, does the existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? What proportion of innovations is patented? Is this share constant across industries and over time? How does patenting affect the diffusion of knowled…
German Jewish Émigrés and US Invention
Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized US science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the United States, we compare changes in patenting by US inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other German chemists. Patenting by US inventors increased by 31 percent in émigré fields. Regressions which instrument for émigré fields with pre-1933 fields of dismissed German chemists…
Compulsory licensing and innovation – Historical evidence from German patents after WWI
Copyrights and Creativity
This paper exploits variation in the adoption of copyrights within Italy—due to the timing of Napoléon's military victories—to investigate the causal effects of copyrights on creativity. Baseline regressions compare changes in opera production across Italian states with and without copyrights. This analysis yields three main results. First, the adoption of copyrights led to a significant increase in the number of newly created operas. Second, cop…
Economics (9 works) · Business (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Intellectual Property and Patents (5 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (3 works) · German (3 works) · Innovation Policy and RD (3 works) · Intellectual property (3 works) · Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues (3 works)