Research Papers
Economic DynamismTechnology, Jobs, & Skills
- How Computer Automation Affects Occupations: Technology, Jobs, and Skills
- Information Technology and Learning On-the-Job
- Diffusing New Technology Without Dissipating Rents by James Bessen and Alessandro Nuvolari
- Knowledge Sharing Among Inventors: Some Historical Perspectives by James Bessen and Alessandro Nuvolari in Revolutionizing Innovation (2015)
- Was Mechanization De-Skilling? The Origins of Task-Biased Technical Change by James Bessen
- More Machines, Better Machines...Or Better Workers? by James Bessen, Journal of Economic History (2012)
- Where Have All the Great Inventors Gone? by James Bessen
- Technology and Learning by Factory Workers: The Stretch-Out at Lowell, 1842 by James Bessen, Journal of Economic History (2003)
- The Direct Costs from NPE Disputes by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer, Cornell Law Review (2014)
- The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls, also in Regulation by James Bessen, Jennifer Ford and Michael J. Meurer (2011)
- The Private Costs of Patent Litigation by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer, Journal of Law, Economics and Policy (2013)
- Make the Patent ‘Polluters’ Pay by James Bessen and Brian Love California Law Review (2013)
- Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer, American Economic Review (2006)
- Lessons for Patent Policy from Empirical Research on Patent Litigation by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer, Lewis and Clark Law Review (2005)
- The Patent Litigation Explosion by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal (2013)
- A Generation of Software Patents by James Bessen Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law (2012)
- Scholars’ Brief in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank
- A Comment on “Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?”
- An Empirical Look at Software Patents by James Bessen and Robert Hunt, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (2007)
- The Software Patent Experiment by James Bessen and Robert Hunt, OECD Proceedings and Business Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (2004)
- What Good is Free Software? by James Bessen in Robert Hahn, Government Policy toward Open Source Software, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies (2002).
- Sequential Innovation, Patents, And Imitation Final version published as James Bessen and Eric Maskin, “Sequential innovation, patents, and imitation,” RAND Journal of Economics, (2009).
- Open Source Software: Free Provision of Complex Public Goods in Jürgen Bitzer and Philipp J. H. Schröder, eds., The Economics of Open Source Software Development, Elsevier B. V. (2006) by James Bessen
- From Knowledge to Ideas: The Two Faces of Innovation by James Bessen
- Communicating Technical Knowledge by James Bessen
- Accounting for Productivity Growth When Technical Change is Biased by James Bessen
- Real Options and the Adoption of New Technologies by James Bessen
- Technology Adoption Costs and Productivity Growth: The Transition to Information Technology Review of Economic Dynamics (2002) by James Bessen
- Productivity Adjustments and Learning-by-Doing as Human Capital Discussion Paper 97-17 by the Center for Economics Studies, U. S. Census Bureau (1997) by James Bessen
- Which Patent Systems Are Better for Inventors? by James Bessen and Grid Thoma
- The Costs and Benefits of United States Patents by James Bessen, Peter Neuhausler, John Turner, and Jonathan Williams
- Imperfect Property Rights by James Bessen
- Evaluating the Economic Performance of Property Systems Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 5 : Iss. 1, Article 1. (2009) by James Bessen
- Do Patents Perform Like Property? Academy of Management Perspectives, (2008), 22(3), pp. 8-20; see also, “Of Patents and Property,” Regulation, 31(4), pp. 18-27 (2008) by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer
- What's Wrong with the Patent System? Fuzzy Boundaries and the Patent Tax First Monday, volume 12, number 6 (June 2007) by James Bessen
- Estimates of Patent Rents from Firm Market Value Research Policy, (2009), v. 38, pp. 1604-16 by James Bessen
- The Value of U.S. Patents by Owner and Patent Characteristics Research Policy, 37 (2008), pp. 932-45 by James Bessen
- Intellectual Property on the Internet: What's Wrong with Conventional Wisdom? German version appears in Lutterbeck, Bernd, Robert A. Gehring, and Matthias Bärwolff eds., Open Source Jahrbuch 2005: Zwischen Softwareentwicklung und Gesellschaftsmodell, Berlin: Lehmanns Media (2005) by James Bessen and Eric Maskin
- Sequential Innovation, Patents and Imitation RAND Journal of Economics (2009) 40(4) pp. 611-35. (auf Deutsch) by James Bessen and Eric Maskin
- Patent Thickets: Strategic Patenting of Complex Technologies by James Bessen
- Patents and the Diffusion of Technical Information Economics Letters, v. 86, no. 1, pp. 121-128 (2005) by James Bessen
- Hold-up and Patent Licensing of Cumulative Innovations with Private Information Economics Letters 82, No. 3, pp. 321-26 (2004) by James Bessen