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Petra Moser

Assistant Professor

Petra Moser

Contact Info:

[email protected]
http://www.stanford.edu/~pmoser/
Page in Stanford Directory

Phone: 650-723-9303

Office: Landau 323

Office hours: By email appointment

Curriculum Vitae

Interests

  • Research: Economic history, economics of innovations
  • Current Research: Design of optimal policies to encourage innovation, including empirical studies of the effects of patent pools and compulsory licensing on innovation
  • Teaching: Economic history, economics of innovation
  • Professional Affiliations:

Recent Publications

(1) “How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth Century World’s Fairs,” American Economic Review, September 2005

(2) “Was Electricity a General Purpose Technology? Evidence from Historical Patent Citations” (with Tom Nicholas), American Economic Review, May, 2004

(3) “Why Don’t Inventors Patent?” NBER Working Paper No. 13294, July 2007

(4) “An Empirical Test of Taste-Based Discrimination: Changes in Ethnic Preferences and their Effects on German Americans at the NYSE During WWI,” NBER Working Paper No. W14003, May 2008

List of Stanford Working Papers

Current Courses

Spring

ECON 113 Economics of Innovation

ECON 225 Economics of Technology and Innovation

Education

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, M.A., Yale University