Working Paper
Protecting social interest in free invention
Gruben, William C.; Brown, Stephen P. A. (1994)
Working Papers , Paper 9405

Journal Article
Research spotlight : Fine-tuning
Sumo, Vanessa (2006-04)
Econ Focus , Volume 10 , Issue Spr , Pages 3

Journal Article
Business method patents take center stage at Atlanta Fed conference
Stanford, Clifford (2003-04-02)
A recent Atlanta Fed conference focused on the economic and legal issues surrounding business method patent developments in the U.S. financial services industry.
Financial Update , Volume 16 , Issue Q 2

Journal Article
The Tenth District's brain drain: who left and what did it cost?
Ferguson, Deron (1995-01)
Most of the Tenth Federal Reserve District states experienced a brain drain, or an outmigration of highly educated people, during the last half of the 1980s. Fortunately, the recent tide of migration appears to have turned for some district states. Yet, it is still important for policymakers to understand the full impact of a brain drain on a state's economy. Highly educated people are prone to move, based on their region's economic performance relative to other parts of the country. Thus, current favorable migration trends in the district could easily be reversed.
Regional Economic Digest , Issue Q I , Pages 8-13

Journal Article
Was Napster right? Conventional theory says we need strong copyrights and patents to unlock innovation. On the contrary, argue Michele Boldrin and David Levine
Clement, Douglas (2002-09)
The Region , Volume 16 , Issue Sep , Pages 10-15, 46-49, 52-54

Conference Paper
Growing by leaps and inches: creative destruction, real cost reduction, and inching up
Zucker, Lynne G.; Darby, Michael R. (2003-09)
Proceedings , Issue Sep , Pages 13-42

Journal Article
A delicate balance : constructing an intellectual property regime that promotes both innovation and social welfare
Steelman, Aaron (2003-04)
Econ Focus , Volume 7 , Issue Spr , Pages 28-31

Journal Article
Intellectual property protection in a globalizing era
Lai, Edwin L.-C. (2008)
Economic Letter , Volume 3

Report
Intellectual property and market size
Levine, David K.; Boldrin, Michele (2005)
Intellectual property protection involves a trade-off between the undesirability of monopoly and the desirable encouragement of creation and innovation. As the scale of the market increases, due either to economic and population growth or to the expansion of trade through treaties such as the World Trade Organization, this trade-off changes. We show that, generally speaking, the socially optimal amount of protection decreases as the scale of the market increases. We also provide simple empirical estimates of how much it should decrease.
Staff Report , Paper 360

Working Paper
Implications of intellectual property rights for dynamic gains from trade
Valderrama, Diego; Connolly, Michelle P. (2005)
A simple intellectual property rights (IPRs) framework is introduced into a dynamic quality ladder model of technological diffusion between innovating firms in one country and imitating firms in another country. The presence of technological spillovers and feedback effects between firms in the two countries demonstrates that, even when steady state growth increases, transition costs sometimes dominate steady state welfare gains. Most existing models of international IPRs find that high intellectual property enforcement in the imitating country leads to welfare gains in the innovating country ...
Working Paper Series , Paper 2004-23