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James Bessen

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First Name: James
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Last Name: Bessen
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RePEc Short-ID: pbe44

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Homepage: http://www.researchoninnovation.org
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Working papers

  1. James Bessen, 2008. "Accounting for Productivity Growth When Technical Change is Biased," Working Papers 0802, Research on Innovation. [Downloadable!]

  2. James Bessen, 2008. "More Machines or Better Machines?," Working Papers 0803, Research on Innovation. [Downloadable!]

  3. James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer, 2008. "Do Patents Perform Like Property?," Working Papers 0801, Research on Innovation. [Downloadable!]

  4. James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer, 2007. "The Private Costs of Patent Litigation," Working Papers 0701, Research on Innovation. [Downloadable!]

  5. James Bessen & Eric Maskin, 2006. "Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Innovation," NajEcon Working Paper Reviews 321307000000000021, www.najecon.org. [Downloadable!]

  6. James Bessen & Eric Maskin, 2006. "Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation," Economics Working Papers 0025, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science. [Downloadable!]

  7. James Bessen, 2006. "The Value of U.S. Patents by Owner and Patent Characteristics," Working Papers 0603, Research on Innovation. [Downloadable!]
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  8. James Bessen, 2006. "Estimates of Firms' Patent Rents from Firm Market Value," Working Papers 0602, Research on Innovation. [Downloadable!]

  9. James Bessen, 2006. "A Comment on “Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?”," Working Papers 0601, Research on Innovation. [Downloadable!]

  10. James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer, 2005. "Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes," Working Papers 0502, Research on Innovation. [Downloadable!]
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  11. James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer, 2005. "The Patent Litigation Explosion," Working Papers 0501, Research on Innovation. [Downloadable!]

  12. James Bessen & Robert M. Hunt, 2004. "An empirical look at software patents," Working Papers 03-17, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. [Downloadable!]
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  13. James Bessen, 2004. "Patent Thickets: Strategic Patenting of Complex Technologies," Working Papers 0401, Research on Innovation. [Downloadable!]

  14. James Bessen, 2004. "Where Have All the Great Inventors Gone?," Working Papers 0402, Research on Innovation. [Downloadable!]

  15. Jim Bessen, 1997. "Productivity Adjustments and Learning-by-Doing as Human Capital," Working Papers 97-17, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau. [Downloadable!]

Articles

  1. Bessen, James, 2008. "The value of U.S. patents by owner and patent characteristics," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 37(5), pages 932-945, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. James Bessen & Robert M. Hunt, 2007. "An Empirical Look at Software Patents," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 16(1), pages 157-189, 03. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. James E. Bessen & Michael J. Meurer, 2006. "Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 96(2), pages 77-81, May. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Bessen, James, 2005. "Patents and the diffusion of technical information," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 86(1), pages 121-128, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  5. Robert Hunt & James Bessen, 2004. "The software patent experiment," Business Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, issue Q3, pages 22-32. [Downloadable!]

  6. Bessen, James, 2004. "Holdup and licensing of cumulative innovations with private information," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 82(3), pages 321-326, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  7. James Bessen, 2003. "IT Adoption Costs and Productivity: A Reply to Diego Comin," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 6(1), pages 252-262, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  8. Bessen, James, 2003. "Technology and Learning by Factory Workers: The Stretch-Out at Lowell, 1842," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 63(01), pages 33-64, March. [Downloadable!]

  9. James Bessen, 2002. "Technology Adoption Costs and Productivity Growth: The Transition to Information Technology," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 5(2), pages 443-469, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

Chapters

  1. James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer, 2008. "Introduction to Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk," Introductory Chapters, in: Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk Princeton University Press. [Downloadable!]

NEP Fields

8 papers by this author were announced in NEP, and specifically in the following field reports (number of papers):
  1. NEP-BEC: Business Economics (2) 2004-09-05 2008-10-13 Author is listed
  2. NEP-DGE: Dynamic General Equilibrium (2) 2008-10-13 2008-10-13 Author is listed
  3. NEP-EFF: Efficiency & Productivity (2) 2008-10-13 2008-10-13 Author is listed
  4. NEP-ENT: Entrepreneurship (1) 2006-05-20
  5. NEP-IND: Industrial Organization (2) 2004-05-09 2007-06-30 Author is listed
  6. NEP-INO: Innovation (6) 2003-09-08 2004-05-09 2006-05-20 2006-11-18 2007-06-30 2008-10-13 Author is listed
  7. NEP-IPR: Intellectual Property Rights (3) 2006-11-18 2007-06-30 2008-10-13 Author is listed
  8. NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (1) 2006-11-18
  9. NEP-TID: Technology & Industrial Dynamics (1) 2006-05-20
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