Reaping what you sow: an empirical analysis of international patent harmonization

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International Patent Harmonization and Trade Balance of Patent Rights

The economic implications of international patent harmonization have attracted little empirical scrutiny. Based on patent application and renewal data in major European countries since the early 1980s, this paper examines the empirical relationship between international patenting, R&D, and “trade flows” of patent rights across national borders. The analysis reveals a substantial patent “trade i...

An Empirical Analysis of China’s International Reserves Demand Function

The study aims to estimate an international reserves demand model for China using economic growth, propensity to import, real effective exchange rate and trade openness variables for quarterly period spanning from 1985Q1 to 2014Q4.The bounds testing technique to cointegration is used to test for a long run relationship, while the autoregressive distributed lag approach is used to estimate short...

What Makes You Click: An Empirical Analysis of Online Dating∗

This paper uses a novel data set obtained from a major online dating service to draw inferences on mate preferences and the match outcomes of the site users. The data set contains detailed information on user attributes such as income, education, physique, and attractiveness, as well as information on the users’ religion, political inclination, etc. The data set also contains a detailed record ...

Determinants of Patent Quality: An Empirical Analysis

∗This research was supported by funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Iain Cockburn, Rebecca Eisenberg, Bronwyn Hall, Mark Lemley, Douglas Lichtman, Jean Lanjouw, David Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Arti Rai, Mark Schankerman, Scott Stern, and Rosemarie Ziedonis provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. I also benefitted from feedback from participants at the 2004 NBE...