Alberto Galasso’s Research

 

 

 

WORKING PAPERS

 

 

1.     Galasso, Alberto and Hong Luo (2024) “Product Liability Litigation and Innovation: Evidence from Medical Devices” PDF

 

2.     Galasso, Alberto (2023) “The blurred lines of copyright infringement” CEPR Discussion Paper 18237  PDF

 

 

    BOOK

 

Galasso, Alberto (2024) The Management of Innovation: Managing and Creating Technology Capital University of Toronto Press

 

 

                                                PUBLISHED PAPERS

 

 

1.     Comino, Stefano, Alberto Galasso and Clara Graziano (2024) “Censorship, industry structure, and creativity: evidence from the Catholic inquisition in Renaissance Venice,” Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, forthcoming PDF

 

2.     Galasso, Alberto and Mark Schankerman (2024) “Licensing Life-Saving Drugs for Developing Countries: Evidence from the Medicines Patent Pool,” Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming PDF YouTube

 

3.     Galasso, Alberto, Hong Luo and Brooklynn Zhu (2023) “Laboratory Safety and Research Productivity,” Research Policy, 52: 104827 PDF Science

 

4.     Galasso, Alberto and Hong Luo (2022) “When does Product Liability Risk Chill Innovation? Evidence from Medical Implants,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 14: 366–401 PDF YouTube

 

5.     Galasso, Alberto and Hong Luo (2021) “Risk-Mitigating Technologies: the Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices,” Management Science, 67: 3022-3040 PDF YouTube

 

6.     Comino, Stefano, Alberto Galasso and Clara Graziano (2020) “Market Power and Patent Strategies: Evidence from Renaissance Venice,” Journal of Industrial Economics 68: 226-269 PDF

 

7.     Galasso, Alberto (2020) “Rewards versus intellectual property rights when commitment is limited,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 169: 397-411 PDF

 

8.     Galasso, Alberto and Mark Schankerman (2018) “Patent Rights, Innovation and Firm Exit,” RAND Journal of Economics 49: 64-86 PDF

 

9.     Galasso, Alberto, Matthew Mitchell and Gabor Virag (2018) “A Theory of Grand Innovation Prizes,”  Research Policy 47: 343-362 PDF

 

10.  Galasso, Alberto and Hong Luo (2017) “Tort Reform and Innovation,” Journal of Law and Economics 60: 385-412 PDF

 

11.  Agrawal, Ajay, Alberto Galasso and Alexander Oettl  (2017) “Roads and Innovation,” Review of Economics and Statistics 99: 417-434 PDF

 

12.  Galasso, Alberto, Matthew Mitchell and Gabor Virag (2016) “Market Outcomes and Dynamic Patent Buyouts,” International Journal of Industrial Organization 48: 207-243 PDF

 

13.  Galasso, Alberto and Mark Schankerman (2015) “Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 130: 317-369 PDF Economist

 

14.  Galasso, Alberto and Mihkel Tombak (2014) “Switching to Green: The Timing of Socially Responsible Innovation,” Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 23: 669-691 PDF

 

15.  Agrawal, Ajay, Iain Cockburn, Alberto Galasso and Alexander Oettl (2014) “Why are some regions more innovative than others? The role of small firms in the presence of large labs,” Journal of Urban Economics 81: 149-165 PDF

 

16.  Galasso, Alberto, Mark Schankerman and Carlos Serrano (2013) “Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights,” RAND Journal of Economics 44: 275-312 PDF

 

17.  Galasso, Alberto (2012) “Broad Cross-License Negotiations,” Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 21:873-911 PDF

 

18.  Goldfarb, Avi, Teck-Hua Ho, Wilfred Amaldoss, Alexander Brown, Yan Chen, Tony Cui, Alberto Galasso, Tanjim Hossain, Ming Hsu, Noah Lim, Mo Xiao and Botao Yang (2012) “Behavioral Models of Managerial Decision-Making,” Marketing Letters 23, 405-421 PDF

 

19.  Galasso, Alberto and Timothy Simcoe (2011) “CEO Overconfidence and Innovation,” Management Science 57: 1469-1484 PDF

 

20.  Galasso, Alberto (2010) “Over-Confidence May Reduce Negotiation Delay,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 76: 716-733 PDF 

 

21.  Galasso, Alberto and Mark Schankerman (2010)Patent Thickets, Courts and the Market for Innovation,” RAND Journal of Economics 41: 472-503 PDF 

 

22.  Galasso, Alberto (2008) “Coordination and Bargaining Power in Contracting with Externalities,Journal of Economic Theory 143: 558-570 PDF

 

 

 

BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

 

 

1.     Galasso Alberto and Hong Luo (2023) “Managing medical device liability through innovation: a strategic approach” Health Management, Policy and Innovation, Volume 8, Issue 1  PDF

 

2.     Galasso, Alberto and Hong Luo (2021) “Risk perception, tort liability, and emerging technologies,” Brookings Institution Research Report, Tuesday, March 23, 2021 LINK

 

3.     Comino, Stefano, Alberto Galasso and Clara Graziano (2019) “Brevetti e limitazioni alla concorrenza nei corpi di mestiere della Repubblica di Venezia” in Privilegi librari nell’Italia del Rinascimento, Erika Squassina, Andrea Ottone (Eds.), Franco Angeli, Milano PDF

 

4.     Hong, Luo and Alberto Galasso (2019) “Innovate Safely - CT Scanners and Radiation Risk,” Harvard Business School Case 719486 LINK

 

5.     Galasso, Alberto and Rosemarie Ziedonis (2019) “Patent Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry,” in Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law, Peter Menell, David Schwartz and Ben Depoorter (Eds), Edward Elgar PDF

 

6.     Galasso, Alberto and Hong Luo (2019) “Punishing Robots: Issues in the Economics of Tort Liability and Innovation in Artificial Intelligence” in The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda, Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb (Eds.), University of Chicago Press  PDF

 

7.     Agrawal, Ajay and Alberto Galasso (2017) “Finding the right innovation ecosystem,” in Survive and Thrive: Winning Against Strategic Threats to Your Business, Joshua Gans and Sarah Kaplan (Eds.), Dog Ear Publishing, Indianapolis PDF