Michael A. Klein
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Research interests: Innovation; Economic Growth; International Economics; Intellectual Property Rights
Email: kleinm5@rpi.edu
Address: Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
3206 Russell Sage Laboratory, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180
Publications
"Blocking Patents, Rent Protection and Economic Growth" with Yibai Yang - Review of Economic Dynamics, 52: 1-20, 2024. (Published Version) (Working Paper Version)
"Intellectual Property-Related Preferential Trade Agreements and Offshoring to Developing Countries" with Claudia Canals and Fuat Sener- Review of International Economics, 31(4): 1442-1475, 2023. (Published Version) (Working Paper Version) (Supplementary Material)
"Product Innovation, Diffusion and Endogenous Growth" with Fuat Sener - Review of Economic Dynamics, 48: 178-201, 2023. (Published Version) (Working Paper Version) (Supplementary Material)
"Trade Secret Protection, Multinational Firms and International Trade" - International Economics, 173: 325-342, 2023. (Published Version) (Working Paper Version) (Supplementary Material)
"The Reward and Contract Theories of Patents in a Model of Endogenous Growth" - European Economic Review, 147: 104178, 2022. (Published Version) (Working Paper Version) (Supplementary Material)
"Patents, Trade Secrets and International Technology Transfer" - Economics Letters, 210: 110180, 2022. (Published Version) (Working Paper Version)
"Secrecy, the Patent Puzzle and Endogenous Growth" - European Economic Review, 126: 103445, 2020. (Published Version) (Working Paper Version)
"Complementarity in Public and Private Intellectual Property Enforcement; Implications for International Standards" - Oxford Economic Papers, 72(3): 748-771, 2020. (Published Version) (Working Paper Version)
"Establishment Productivity Convergence and the Effect of Foreign Ownership at the Frontier" - World Development, 122: 245-260, 2019. (Published Version) (Working Paper Version)
"Foreign Direct Investment and Collective Intellectual Property Protection in Developing Countries" - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 149: 389-412, 2018. (Published Version) (Working Paper Version)
Book Chapters
"Schumpeterian Growth Theory and the Patent Puzzle" with Fuat Sener - In Handbook of Innovation and Intellectual Property, Walter Park (Editor), Elgar Publishing, 102-119, 2024. (Working Paper Version)
Working papers
"Innovation and Appropriation: Insights from the Chinese Patent Survey" with Dong Cheng and Fuat Sener. Revision requested at Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. (Working Paper)
"Innovation, Technology Transfer and the International Regulation of Patents and Trade Secrets" with Yibai Yang (Working Paper)
"Patent Policy, Invention and Innovation in the Theory of Schumpeterian Growth" (Working Paper)