Research
Publications
Crisis Innovation and National Competitiveness
The Hidden Costs of Securing Innovation: The Manifold Impacts of Compulsory Invention Secrecy
Accepted at Management Science
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Crisis Innovation Policy from World War II to COVID-19
(with Bhaven Sampat)
Forthcoming in NBER Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy
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Press: The Atlantic, NPR, ResOrg
The Economics of Crisis Innovation Policy: A Historical Perspective
(with Bhaven Sampat)
AEA Papers & Proceedings, 111, 346-350. 2021.
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Automation and Technology Diffusion
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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Managing Creative Workers
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
Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development
RAND Journal of Economics, 48(2), 438-466. 2017.
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Working papers
(with James Feigenbaum)
submitted
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Press: Tech Republic, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, AEIdeas, Cato Research Brief, Broadstreet
(with Bhaven Sampat)
note: a significantly expanded version of this paper is underway, but has been delayed multiple years by the closure of the U.S. National Archives to outside researchers during the COVID-19 pandemic. new draft expected Fall 2022.
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Press: NBER Digest (Sep 2020), Axios, AEIdeas, Mises Institute
The World War II Crisis Innovation Model: What Was It, and Where Does It Apply?
(with Bhaven Sampat)
revise & resubmit at Research Policy
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Projects in progress
The Long-Run Impacts of Crisis Medical Research on the Life Sciences
drafting
(with Bhaven Sampat)
The Effects of Crisis Collaborations on the Organization of Inventive Activity
drafting
(with Bhaven Sampat and Maria Roche)
Innovation and the Dynamics of New Enterprise
drafting
(with Jorge Guzman and Innessa Colaiacovo)
The Effects of Foreign IP Theft on U.S. Firms and Industries
(with Britta Glennon and Lia Sheer)
Other papers
Good Reverberations? Teacher Influence in Music Composition since 1450
by Karol Jan Borowiecki
Journal of Political Economy, 130(4), 2022.
Over the years 2015-2018, I co-developed this paper from its conception to data collection and measurement of composer similarity, early analysis, framing, and initial drafting, before removing myself from the project to focus on my crisis innovation agenda. The abstract, much of the introduction, and nearly all of the tables and figures in the body of the paper were prepared during this time, after which Karol shepherded the paper through submission, revisions, and the accompanying uncertainty of the R&R process. It's a project I'm fond of (especially given a personal interest in and experience playing the Western classical canon!), and am happy to see well-published.
(with James Feigenbaum)
Strategy Science conference "Best Paper" award
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