This paper describes the methodology used to construct a new sample of patents matched
to Compustat firms for the period 1980–2015. We compare our data to existing NBER data …

Government subsidies have a direct impact on firms' innovation strategies. The game
relationship between the government, the subsidized firm and its competitors under different …

The development of a difference-in-differences estimator is a new move in patent policy
evaluation research. However, such an estimator neglects the possibility that academic …

I examine how patent enforcement affects corporate research and development (R&D),
exploiting the legal changes induced by the Supreme Court decision eBay v …

The effect of financial crises on innovation is an unsettled and important question for
economic growth, but one difficult to answer with modern data. Using a differences-in …

Patents are the most important tool to protect innovation and support the value creation
process in early-stage financing as well as in Private Capital investments. This work studies …

This paper examines the role of intellectual property (IP) law as a determinant for external
debt financing of innovative firms. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in patent …

We examine innovation following the Great Depression using data on a century's worth of
US patents and a difference-in-differences design that exploits regional variation in the crisis …

In this article, we address several limitations of prior international business studies that
investigate how and why intellectual property rights (IPR) institutions evolve in ways of …

Abstract Research Summary Non‐practicing entities (NPEs) are firms that accumulate and
acquire patents but do not further develop or implement the patented inventions (known as …