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Selected Bibliography for Samuel S. Kortum
Professor in Economics and the College



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"An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms." Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum and Francis Kramarz; Econometrica, 2011, 79(5), pp. 1453-98.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3982/ECTA8318

"Trade and Carbon Taxes." Joshua Elliott, Ian Foster, Samuel Kortum, Todd Munson, Fernando Perez Cervantes and David Weisbach; American Economic Review, 2010, 100(2), pp. 465-69.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.100.2.465

"Global Rebalancing with Gravity: Measuring the Burden of Adjustment." Robert Dekle, Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; IMF Staff Pap, 2008, 55(3), pp. 511-40.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/imfsp.2008.17

"General Equilibrium Analysis of the Eaton-Kortum Model of International Trade." Fernando Alvarez and Robert E. Lucas, Jr.; Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007, 54(6), pp. 1726-68.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2006.07.006

"Unbalanced Trade." Robert Dekle, Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; American Economic Review, 2007, 97(2), pp. 351-55.
http:/dx.doi.org/AEAP/doi/abs/10.1257/aer.97.2.351

"Comment: Trips and Technology Transfer — Evidence from Patent Data," Samuel Kortum, in K. E. Maskus and J. H. Reichman: International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

"Moore's Law and the Semiconductor Industry: A Vintage Model." Ana Aizcorbe and Samuel Kortum; Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2005, 107(4), pp. 603-30.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9442.2005.00429.x

"International Patenting and the European Patent Office: A Quantitative Assessment," Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum and Josh Lerner, in Patents, Innovation and Economic Performance: OECD Conference Proceedings,. Paris and Washington, D.C.: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004, pp. 27-52

"Comment On: "Importing Technology "." Samuel Kortum; Journal of Monetary Economics, 2004, 51(1), pp. 33-38.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2003.10.001

"Dissecting Trade: Firms, Industries, and Export Destinations." Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum and Francis Kramarz; American Economic Review, 2004, 94(2), pp. 150-54.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/0002828041301560

"An R&D Roundtable." Samuel S. Kortum; Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2004, 13(4), pp. 349-63.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10438590410001629007

"Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation." Tor Jakob Klette and Samuel Kortum; Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 112(5), pp. 986-1018.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/422563

"Review of 'Networks and Markets'." Samuel Kortum; Journal of International Economics, 2003, 61(1), pp. 249-52.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1996(03)00010-2

"Patent Quality - Are All Patent Examiners Equal? Examiners, Patent Characteristics, and Litigation Outcomes," Iain M. Cockburn, Samuel Kortum and Scott Stern, in W. M. Cohen and S. A. Merrill: Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy. Washington: National Academies Press, 2003, pp. 17-53

"Venture Capital and Innovation: Clues to a Puzzle," Samuel Kortum and Josh Lerner, in J. McCahery and L. Renneboog: Venture Capital Contracting and the Valuation of High-Technology Firms. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 188-223

"A Rising Tide Raises All Ships: Trade and Diffusion as Conduits of Growth," Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum, in L. Paganetto and E. S. Phelps: Finance, Research, Education and Growth. Houndmills, U.K. and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 75-89

"Technology, Geography, and Trade." Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; Econometrica, 2002, 70(5), pp. 1741-79.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3082019

"Comment: Taxation and the Sources of Growth: Estimates from U S Multinational Corporations," Samuel S. Kortum, in J. R. J. Hines: International Taxation and Multinational Activity. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. 259-63
http://www.nber.org/chapters/c10726

"Does Venture Capital Spur Innovation?," Samuel Kortum and Josh Lerner, in G. D. Libecap: Entrepreneurial Inputs and Outcomes: New Studies of Entrepreneurship in the United States. Amsterdam; New York and Tokyo: Elsevier Science, JAI, 2001, pp. 1-44

"Technology, Trade, and Growth: A Unified Framework." Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; European Economic Review, 2001, 45(4-6), pp. 742-55.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0014-2921(01)00129-5

"Trade in Capital Goods." Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; European Economic Review, 2001, 45(7), pp. 1195-235.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0014-2921(00)00103-3

"Assessing the Contribution of Venture Capital to Innovation." Samuel Kortum and Josh Lerner; RAND Journal of Economics, 2000, 31(4), pp. 674-92.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2696354

"What Is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting?" Samuel Kortum and Josh Lerner; Research Policy, 1999, 28(1), pp. 1-22.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0048-7333(98)00082-1

"International Technology Diffusion: Theory and Measurement." Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; International Economic Review, 1999, 40(3), pp. 537-70.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2648766

"Competitiveness and Invention: Some Simple Measures," Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum, in P. Darlap and H. Handler: Future Competitiveness of Europe. Vienna: Austrian Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, Economic Policy Section, 1998.

"Stronger Protection or Technological Revolution: What Is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting?" Samuel Kortum and Josh Lerner; Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1998, 48, pp. 247-304.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0167-2231(98)00023-2

"European Technology Policy: Research Efforts in Europe Matter." Jonathan Eaton, Eva Gutierrez and Samuel Kortum; Economic Policy: A European Forum, 1998, 13(27), pp. 403-30.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0327.00037

"Engines of Growth: Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation." Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; Japan and the World Economy, 1997, 9(2), pp. 235-59.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0922-1425(97)00011-X

"Assigning Patents to Industries: Tests of the Yale Technology Concordance." Samuel Kortum and Jonathan Putnam; Economic Systems Research, 1997, 9(2), pp. 161-75.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09535319700000011

"1974: A Comment." Samuel Kortum; Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1997, 46, pp. 97-105.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0167-2231(97)00005-5

"Research, Patenting, and Technological Change." Samuel S. Kortum; Econometrica, 1997, 65(6), pp. 1389-419.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2171741

"Environmental Change and Hedonic Cost Functions for Automobiles." Steven Berry, Samuel Kortum and Ariel Pakes; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1996, 93(23), pp. 12731-38.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40688

"Microeconomic Policy and Technological Change: Discussion," Samuel S. Kortum, in J. C. Fuhrer and J. S. Little: Technology and Growth: Conference Proceedings. Boston: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1996, pp. 201-07

"Trade in Ideas: Patenting and Productivity in the OECD." Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; Journal of International Economics, 1996, 40(3-4), pp. 251-78.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-1996(95)01407-1

"Measuring Technology Diffusion and the International Sources of Growth." Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; Eastern Economic Journal, 1996, 22(4), pp. 401-10.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40325735

"Equilibrium R&D and the Patent-R&D Ratio: U S Evidence." Samuel Kortum; American Economic Review, 1993, 83(2), pp. 450-57.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2117707

Inventions, R&D and Industry Growth; Samuel Kortum; Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1992.
http://search.proquest.com/docview/304015596/abstract

Working Papers  

Trade and the Global Recession; Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum, Brent Neiman and John Romalis; NBER Working Papers Series no.16666; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w16666

An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms; Jonathan Eaton, Samuel S. Kortum and Francis Kramarz; CEPR Discussion Papers: 7111; London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2009.
http://www.cepr.org/pubs/dps/DP7111.asp

Global Rebalancing with Gravity: Measuring the Burden of Adjustment; Robert Dekle, Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; NBER Working Papers Series no. 13846; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research 2008.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w13846


An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms; Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum and Francis Kramarz; NBER Working Papers Series no. 14610; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w14610


Unbalanced Trade; Robert Dekle, Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; NBER Working Papers Series no.13035; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w13035

Unbalanced Trade; Robert Dekle, Jonathan Eaton and Samuel S. Kortum; NBER working paper series ; no. w13035; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w13035


Innovation, Diffusion, and Trade; Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; NBER Working Papers Series no. 12385; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2006.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w12385


General Equilibrium Analysis of the Eaton-Kortum Model of International Trade; Fernando E. Alvarez and Robert E. Lucas Jr; NBER working paper series no. w11764; Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w11764


Trade in Capital Goods; Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; UCLA Department of Economics, Levine's Working Paper Archive, 2004.
http://www.dklevine.com/archive/eaton_capg21.pdf


Innovating Firms: Evidence and Theory; Tor J. Klette and Samuel Kortum; UCLA Department of Economics, Levine's Working Paper Archive, 2004.
http://www.dklevine.com/archive/refs4122247000000000475.pdf


Dissecting Trade: Firms, Industries, and Export Destinations; Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum and Francis Kramarz; NBER Working Papers Series no. 10344; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2004.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w10344


Dissecting Trade: Firms, Industries, and Export Destinations; Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum and Francis Kramarz; Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Staff Report: 332, 2004.
http://minneapolisfed.org/research/sr/sr332.html


Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation; Tor Jakob Klette and Samuel Kortum; NBER Working Papers Series no. 8819; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2002.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w8819


Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation; Jakob Klette and Samuel Kortum; Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Staff Report: 300, 2002.
http://minneapolisfed.org/research/sr/sr300.html


Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation; Tor Jakob Klette and Samuel S. Kortum; CEPR Discussion Papers: 3248; London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2002.
http://www.cepr.org/pubs/dps/DP3248.asp


Are All Patent Examiners Equal? The Impact of Examiner Characteristics; Iain M. Cockburn, Samuel Kortum and Scott Stern; NBER Working Papers Series no. 8980; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2002.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w8980


Trade in Capital Goods; Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; NBER Working Papers Series no. 8070; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w8070


Plants and Productivity in International Trade; Andrew B. Bernard, Jonathan Eaton, J. Bradford Jensen and Samuel Kortum; Center for Economic Studies Discussion Paper no. CES-WP-00-08; Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2000.
http://www.ces.census.gov/index.php/ces/1.00/cespapers?down_key=101605


Plants and Productivity in International Trade; Andrew B. Bernard, Jonathan Eaton, J. Bradford Jenson and Samuel Kortum; NBER Working Papers Series no. 7688; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2000.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w7688


European Technology Policy; Jonathan Eaton, Eva Gutierrez and Samuel Kortum; NBER Working Papers Series no. 6827; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w6827


Does Venture Capital Spur Innovation?; Samuel Kortum and Josh Lerner; NBER Working Papers Series no. 6846; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w6846


A Model of Research, Patenting, and Technological Change; Samuel Kortum; NBER Working Papers Series no. 4646; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w4646


Trade in Ideas: Patenting and Productivity in the OECD; Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; NBER Working Papers Series no. 5049; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1997.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w5049


Technology and Bilateral Trade; Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; NBER Working Papers Series no. 6253; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1997.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w6253


Stronger Protection or Technological Revolution: What Is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting?; Samuel Kortum and Josh Lerner; NBER Working Papers Series no. 6204; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1997.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w6204


Environmental Change and Hedonic Cost Functions for Automobiles; Steven Berry, Samuel Kortum and Ariel Pakes; NBER Working Papers Series no. 5746; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1996.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w5746


Engines of Growth: Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation; Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; NBER Working Papers Series no. 5207; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1995.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w5207


International Patenting and Technology Diffusion; Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum; NBER Working Papers Series no. 4931; Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1994.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w4931

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