Michael A. Klein
Assistant 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, accepted August 2023, forthcoming in print. (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)