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Petra Moser
Assistant Professor, Department of
Economics, Stanford University
Email pmoser at stanford.edu
Research Interests
Economics
of Innovation and Economic History
Working Papers
- Compulsory
Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act (with Alessandra
Voena)
- Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from
the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry (with Ryan
Lampe)
- Why Don’t
Inventors Patent?
- Patent Pools
and the Direction of Technical Change: Evidence from the 19th-century
Sewing Machine Industry
(with Ryan
Lampe)
- Do Patents
Weaken the Localization of Innovations? Evidence from World’s Fairs,
1851-1915
- An Empirical Test of Taste-Based Discrimination: Changes in Ethnic
Preferences and their Effects on Admissions to the NYSE
Work in Progress
- Compulsory Licensing – Effects on U.S.
Pharmaceuticals after TRIPS (with Alessandra
Voena)
- Does Tacit Knowledge Matter? – Effects of Jewish Émigrés
on U.S. Invention (with
Fabian Waldinger)
- Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation – 100 Years of
U.S. Pools (with Ryan Lampe)
- Do Stronger IPRs Encourage Technology Transfers –
Changes in Patenting after the Paris Convention of 1883 (with L. Kamran
Bilir)
- Endogenous Patent Laws – Evidence from the Plant
Variety Protection Act of 1970 (with Paul Rhode)
- Do Patents Encourage Biological Innovation – Evidence
from the Plant Patent Act of 1930 (with Paul Rhode)
- Ethnic Networks in Finance – Evidence from Membership
Sales at the NYSE, 1883 to 1973 (with Giacomo de Giorgi)
- Financial Regulation – Evidence from the Sale of
Specialist Seats at the NYSE, 1883 to 1973
Publications
- How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation?
Evidence from Ninetheenth-Century World Fairs
The American Economic Review, vol. 95 (4), September 2005, pp.
1215-1236
Summarized
in A Stroll Through Patent History, The New York Times, September 23,
2003, and Fördern Patente Innovation? Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November
14, 2003, and Blackberry Picking, The New Yorker, December 19, 2005
Data
Set
- Was Electricity a General Purpose Technology?
Evidence from Historical Patent Citations with Tom Nicholas,
The American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2004,
vol.94, no.2, pp.388-394
- Determinants of Innovation - Evidence from
19th Century World Fairs,
The Journal of Economic History, May 2004, vol.64, no.2,
pp.548-552
Book Reviews
- Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to
the Present. Edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. With a foreword by William Janeway. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2007. Journal of Economic Literature,
vol. XLVII,
pp. 50-53.
- Networked Machinists: High Technology Industries in
Antebellum America, by
David R. Meyer. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2006. Journal
of Economic History, vol. 67, no.3, pp. 821-822.
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