Alberto Galasso

Academic Positions

Selected Publications - Papers

• The Diffusion of New Institutions: Evidence from Renaissance Venice's Patent System

  with Stefano Comino and Clara Graziano

  CEPR discussion paper 12102

• How does product liability risk affect innovation? Evidence from medical implants

  with Hong Luo

  CEPR discussion paper 13036

  2018

• A Theory of Grand Innovation Prizes

  with Matthew Mitchell and Gabor Virag

  Research Policy

  Issue:47

  2018

  Pages: 343-362.

• Patent Rights, Innovation and Firm Exit (paper + online appendix)

  with Mark Schankerman

  RAND Journal of Economics

  Issue:49

  2018

  Pages: 64-86.

• Roads and Innovation (paper + online appendix)

  with Ajay Agrawal and Alex Oettl

  Review of Economics and Statistics

  Issue:99

  2017

  Pages: 417-434.

• Tort Reform and Innovation (paper + online appendix)

  with Hong Luo

  Journal of Law and Economics

  Issue:60

  2017

  Pages: 385-412.

• Market Outcomes and Dynamic Patent Buyouts (paper + online appendix)

  with Matthew Mitchell and Gabor Virag

  International Journal of Industrial Organization

  Issue:48

  2016

  Pages: 207-243.

• Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts (paper + online appendix)

  with Mark Schankerman

  Quarterly Journal of Economics

  Issue:130

  2015

  Pages: 317-369.

• Switching to Green: the Timing of Socially Responsible Innovation (paper + online appendix)

  with Mihkel Tombak

  Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

  Issue:23

  2014

  Pages: 669-691.

• Why are some regions more innovative than others? The role of small firms in the presence of large labs

  with Ajay Agrawal, Iain Cockburn and Alex Oettl

  Journal of Urban Economics

  Issue:81

  2014

  Pages: 149-165.

• Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights

  with Mark Schankerman and Carlos Serrano

  RAND Journal of Economics

  Issue:44

  2013

  Pages: 275-312.

• Broad Cross-License Negotiations

  Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

  Issue:21

  2012

  Pages: 873-911.

• CEO Overconfidence and Innovation (paper + online appendix)

  with Tim Simcoe

  Management Science

  Issue:57

  2011

  Pages: 1469-1484.

• Over-Confidence May Reduce Negotiation Delay

  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

  Issue:76

  2010

  Pages: 716-733.

• Patent Thickets, Courts and the Market for Innovation (paper + online appendix)

  with Mark Schankerman

  RAND Journal of Economics

  Issue:41

  2010

  Pages: 472-503.

• Coordination and Bargaining Power in Contracting with Externalities

  Journal of Economic Theory

  Issue:143

  2008

  Pages: 558-570.

Selected Publications - Books and Chapters

• Finding the right innovation ecosystem

  with Ajay Agrawal

  in Survive and Thrive: Winning Against Strategic Threats to Your Business, J. Gans and S. Kaplan (Eds.)

  2017

  Pages: 135-157.

Featured Work

Academic / Professional Service