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James Bessen

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http://www.researchoninnovation.org
Twitter: @jamesbessen

Affiliation

Boston University School of Law

http://www.bu.edu/law/
Boston, MA

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Working papers

  1. James Bessen & Xiupeng Wang, 2025. "The Intangible Divide: Why Do So Few Firms Invest in Innovation?," Working Papers 25-15, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
  2. James Bessen & Iain Cockburn & Jennifer Hunt, 2024. "Is distance from innovation a barrier to the adoption of artificial intelligence," CEP Discussion Papers dp2038, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
  3. Leo Sveikauskas & Rachel Soloveichik & Corby Garner & Peter B. Meyer & James Bessen & Mathew Russell, 2023. "Marketing, Other Intangibles, and Output Growth in 61 United States Industries," BEA Papers 0122, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
  4. James Bessen, 2018. "AI and Jobs: the role of demand," NBER Working Papers 24235, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. James Bessen & Alessandro Nuvolari, 2017. "Diffusing New Technology without Dissipating Rents: Some Historical Case Studies of Knwoledge Sharing," LEM Papers Series 2017/28, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
  6. James Bessen & Jennifer L. Ford & Michael J. Meurer, 2011. "The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls," Working Papers 1103, Research on Innovation.
  7. James Bessen, 2011. "A Generation of Software Patents," Working Papers 1102, Research on Innovation.
  8. James Bessen, 2011. "Was Mechanization De-Skilling? The Origins of Task-Biased Technical Change," Working Papers 1101, Research on Innovation.
  9. James Bessen & Alessandro Nuvolari, 2011. "Knowledge Sharing among Inventors: Some Historical Perspectives," LEM Papers Series 2011/21, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
  10. James E. Bessen, 2010. "Communicating Technical Knowledge," Levine's Working Paper Archive 661465000000000308, David K. Levine.
  11. James Bessen, 2009. "Imperfect Property Rights," Working Papers 0903, Research on Innovation.
  12. James Bessen, 2009. "More Machines, Better Machines...Or Better Workers?," Working Papers 0803, Research on Innovation.
  13. James Bessen, 2009. "Evaluating the Economic Performance of Property Systems," Working Papers 0902, Research on Innovation.
  14. James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer, 2009. "Of Patents and Property," Working Papers 0901, Research on Innovation.
  15. James Bessen, 2008. "Accounting for Productivity Growth When Technical Change is Biased," Working Papers 0802, Research on Innovation.
  16. James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer, 2008. "Do Patents Perform Like Property?," Working Papers 0801, Research on Innovation.
  17. James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer, 2007. "The Private Costs of Patent Litigation," Working Papers 0701, Research on Innovation.
  18. James Bessen & Eric Maskin, 2006. "Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Innovation," NajEcon Working Paper Reviews 321307000000000021, www.najecon.org.
  19. James Bessen, 2006. "A Comment on “Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?”," Working Papers 0601, Research on Innovation.
  20. James Bessen & Eric Maskin, 2006. "Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation," Economics Working Papers 0025, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science.
  21. James Bessen, 2006. "Estimates of Firms' Patent Rents from Firm Market Value," Working Papers 0602, Research on Innovation.
  22. James Bessen, 2006. "The Value of U.S. Patents by Owner and Patent Characteristics," Working Papers 0603, Research on Innovation.
  23. James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer, 2005. "Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes," Working Papers 0502, Research on Innovation.
  24. James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer, 2005. "The Patent Litigation Explosion," Working Papers 0501, Research on Innovation.
  25. James Bessen, 2004. "Where Have All the Great Inventors Gone?," Working Papers 0402, Research on Innovation.
  26. James Bessen & Robert M Hunt, 2004. "An Empirical Look at Software Patents," Levine's Working Paper Archive 122247000000000167, David K. Levine.
  27. James Bessen, 2004. "Patent Thickets: Strategic Patenting of Complex Technologies," Working Papers 0401, Research on Innovation.
  28. Jim Bessen, 1997. "Productivity Adjustments and Learning-by-Doing as Human Capital," Working Papers 97-17, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.

Articles

  1. James Bessen & Maarten Goos & Anna Salomons & Wiljan van den Berge, 2025. "What Happens to Workers at Firms that Automate?," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 107(1), pages 125-141, January.
  2. James Bessen & Erich Denk & Chen Meng, 2024. "Perpetuating wage inequality: evidence from salary history bans," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 22(3), pages 709-733, September.
  3. Leo Sveikauskas & Rachel Soloveichik & Corby Garner & Peter B. Meyer & James Bessen & Matthew Russell, 2024. "Marketing, Other Intangibles, and Output Growth in 61 United States Industries," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 70(4), pages 1190-1215, December.
  4. Bessen, James & Impink, Stephen Michael & Reichensperger, Lydia & Seamans, Robert, 2022. "The role of data for AI startup growth," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 51(5).
  5. James Bessen, 2020. "Industry Concentration and Information Technology," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 63(3), pages 531-555.
  6. James Bessen & Maarten Goos & Anna Salomons & Wiljan van den Berge, 2020. "Firm-Level Automation: Evidence from the Netherlands," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 110, pages 389-393, May.
  7. James Bessen, 2019. "Automation and jobs: when technology boosts employment," Economic Policy, CEPR, CESifo, Sciences Po;CES;MSH, vol. 34(100), pages 589-626.
  8. James Bessen & Alessandro Nuvolari, 2019. "Diffusing new technology without dissipating rents: some historical case studies of knowledge sharing," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 28(2), pages 365-388.
  9. Morgan R. Frank & David Autor & James E. Bessen & Erik Brynjolfsson & Manuel Cebrian & David J. Deming & Maryann Feldman & Matthew Groh & José Lobo & Esteban Moro & Dashun Wang & Hyejin Youn & Iyad Ra, 2019. "Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 116(14), pages 6531-6539, April.
  10. Bessen, James & Neuhäusler, Peter & Turner, John L. & Williams, Jonathan, 2018. "Trends in private patent costs and rents for publicly-traded United States firms," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 53-69.
  11. Bessen, James, 2014. "Industry and Revolution: Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico. By Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2013. Pp. 351. $49.95, hardcover," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 74(2), pages 642-644, June.
  12. Bessen, James, 2012. "More Machines, Better Machines…or Better Workers?," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 72(1), pages 44-74, March.
  13. Bessen, James, 2009. "Estimates of patent rents from firm market value," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 38(10), pages 1604-1616, December.
  14. Bessen James, 2009. "Evaluating the Economic Performance of Property Systems," Review of Law & Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 5(3), pages 1037-1061, December.
  15. James Bessen & Eric Maskin, 2009. "Sequential innovation, patents, and imitation," RAND Journal of Economics, RAND Corporation, vol. 40(4), pages 611-635, December.
  16. Bessen, James, 2008. "The value of U.S. patents by owner and patent characteristics," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 37(5), pages 932-945, June.
  17. James Bessen & Robert M. Hunt, 2007. "An Empirical Look at Software Patents," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 16(1), pages 157-189, March.
  18. 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.
  19. Bessen, James, 2005. "Patents and the diffusion of technical information," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 86(1), pages 121-128, January.
  20. James Bessen & Robert M. Hunt, 2004. "The software patent experiment," Business Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, issue Q3, pages 22-32.
  21. Bessen, James, 2004. "Holdup and licensing of cumulative innovations with private information," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 82(3), pages 321-326, March.
  22. 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.
  23. 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(1), pages 33-64, March.
  24. 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.

Chapters

  1. James Bessen, 2018. "Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: The Role of Demand," NBER Chapters, in: The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda, pages 291-307, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. 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.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 20 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-INO: Innovation (13) 2003-09-08 2004-05-09 2006-05-20 2006-11-18 2007-06-30 2008-10-13 2011-07-02 2011-10-01 2011-11-07 2017-11-26 2024-10-21 2024-11-25 2025-03-10. Author is listed
  2. NEP-TID: Technology and Industrial Dynamics (8) 2006-05-20 2011-07-02 2011-10-01 2018-02-26 2024-10-21 2024-11-04 2024-11-25 2025-03-10. Author is listed
  3. NEP-IPR: Intellectual Property Rights (7) 2006-11-18 2007-06-30 2008-10-13 2011-07-02 2011-10-01 2011-11-07 2017-11-26. Author is listed
  4. NEP-CSE: Economics of Strategic Management (5) 2011-11-07 2024-10-21 2024-11-04 2024-11-25 2025-03-10. Author is listed
  5. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (4) 2011-07-02 2011-11-07 2017-11-26 2018-02-26
  6. NEP-SBM: Small Business Management (4) 2024-10-21 2024-11-04 2024-11-25 2025-03-10
  7. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (4) 2017-11-26 2024-10-21 2024-11-04 2024-11-25
  8. NEP-AIN: Artificial Intelligence (3) 2024-10-21 2024-11-04 2024-11-25
  9. NEP-KNM: Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy (3) 2010-11-06 2011-11-07 2017-11-26
  10. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (3) 2018-02-26 2024-11-04 2024-11-25
  11. NEP-BEC: Business Economics (2) 2004-09-05 2008-10-13
  12. NEP-DGE: Dynamic General Equilibrium (2) 2008-10-13 2008-10-13
  13. NEP-EFF: Efficiency and Productivity (2) 2008-10-13 2008-10-13
  14. NEP-GEO: Economic Geography (2) 2024-10-21 2024-11-25
  15. NEP-IND: Industrial Organization (2) 2004-05-09 2007-06-30
  16. NEP-ACC: Accounting and Auditing (1) 2024-05-13
  17. NEP-CFN: Corporate Finance (1) 2025-03-10
  18. NEP-COM: Industrial Competition (1) 2011-10-01
  19. NEP-ENT: Entrepreneurship (1) 2006-05-20
  20. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (1) 2011-07-02
  21. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2011-07-02
  22. NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (1) 2006-11-18
  23. NEP-ORE: Operations Research (1) 2018-02-26

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