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What can explain the Chinese patent explosion? (2016)
Journal Article
Eberhardt, M., Helmers, C., & Yu, Z. (2017). What can explain the Chinese patent explosion?. Oxford Economic Papers, 69(1), 239-262. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpw042

We analyse the ‘explosion’ of patent filings by Chinese residents both domestically and in the United States during the early 2000s, employing a unique dataset of 374,000 firms matching patent applications to manufacturing census data. Our analysis r... Read More about What can explain the Chinese patent explosion?.

The heterogeneous effect of software patents on expected returns: evidence from India (2016)
Journal Article
Eberhardt, M., Fafchamps, M., Helmers, C., & Patnam, M. (2016). The heterogeneous effect of software patents on expected returns: evidence from India. Economics Letters, 145, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.05.016

We contribute to the literature on the role of patenting for economic development by analyzing the impact of patent protection for software in India. We find that a proposed broadening of patent eligibility to include software in 2004 had a large pos... Read More about The heterogeneous effect of software patents on expected returns: evidence from India.

The effect of agricultural technology on the speed of development (2016)
Journal Article
Eberhardt, M., & Vollrath, D. (2018). The effect of agricultural technology on the speed of development. World Development, 109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.03.017

We examine heterogeneity in the elasticity of agricultural output with respect to labor. Employing panel data from 128 countries over a forty year period we find distinct heterogeneity in the elasticity of agricultural output with respect to labor. T... Read More about The effect of agricultural technology on the speed of development.