Research
Publications
Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 102(3), 583-599. 2020.
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Final working paper version | Online appendix
Press: New York Times, Inc.com, LiveMint, FinWeek, Freelancer, VoxEU, HBR (France), HBS Working Knowledge
Management Science, 66(12), 5683-5700. 2020.
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Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor
RAND Journal of Economics, 49(2), 427-452. 2018.
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Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development
RAND Journal of Economics, 48(2), 438-466. 2017.
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Chapters and proceedings
The Economics of Crisis Innovation Policy: A Historical Perspective
(with Bhaven Sampat)
Forthcoming in AEA Papers & Proceedings
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Press: AEIdeas
Working papers
(with James Feigenbaum)
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AT&T and the Automation of Telephone Operation draft available upon request
(with James Feigenbaum)
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(with Bhaven Sampat)
note: a significantly expanded version of this paper is in progress
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Press: NBER Digest (Sep 2020), Axios, AEIdeas
Organizing Crisis Innovation: Lessons from World War II
(with Bhaven Sampat)
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The Consequences of Compulsory Invention Secrecy
under revision for resubmission
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Projects in progress
Crisis Innovation Policy from World War II to COVID-19
(invited chapter; with Bhaven Sampat)
The Long-Run Impacts of Crisis Medical Research on the Life Sciences
(with Bhaven Sampat)
World War II and the Organization of Science
(with Bhaven Sampat and Innessa Colaiacovo)
U.S. Entrepreneurship over the 20th Century
(with Jorge Guzman and Innessa Colaiacovo)
The Effects of Foreign Intellectual Property Theft on U.S. Innovation
(with Britta Glennon and Lia Sheer)
Please contact me for a synopsis of projects in progress.