Alberto Galasso’s Research
Alberto Galasso’s Research
WORKING PAPERS
1. Caoui, El Hadi and Alberto Galasso (2025) “Fractional Ownership and Copyright Licensing: Evidence from the Music Industry” NBER working paper 34336 PDF Suno
2. Galasso, Alberto and Hong Luo (2024) “Product Liability Litigation and Innovation: Evidence from Medical Devices” NBER working paper 32215 PDF
BOOK
Galasso, Alberto (2024) The Management of Innovation: Managing and Creating Technology Capital University of Toronto Press
PUBLISHED PAPERS
1 Galasso, Alberto (2025) “The blurred lines of copyright infringement,” Journal of Law and Economics, 68: 805-843 PDF
2. Comino, Stefano, Alberto Galasso and Clara Graziano (2025) “Censorship, industry structure, and creativity: evidence from the Catholic inquisition in Renaissance Venice,” Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 41: 1045-1074 PDF
3. Galasso, Alberto and Mark Schankerman (2024) “Licensing Life-Saving Drugs for Developing Countries: Evidence from the Medicines Patent Pool,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 106: 1529–1541 PDF YouTube
4. Galasso, Alberto, Hong Luo and Brooklynn Zhu (2023) “Laboratory Safety and Research Productivity,” Research Policy, 52: 104827 PDF Science
5. 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
6. Galasso, Alberto and Hong Luo (2021) “Risk-Mitigating Technologies: the Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices,” Management Science, 67: 3022-3040 PDF YouTube
7. 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
8. Galasso, Alberto (2020) “Rewards versus intellectual property rights when commitment is limited,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 169: 397-411 PDF
9. Galasso, Alberto and Mark Schankerman (2018) “Patent Rights, Innovation and Firm Exit,” RAND Journal of Economics 49: 64-86 PDF
10. Galasso, Alberto, Matthew Mitchell and Gabor Virag (2018) “A Theory of Grand Innovation Prizes,” Research Policy 47: 343-362 PDF
11. Galasso, Alberto and Hong Luo (2017) “Tort Reform and Innovation,” Journal of Law and Economics 60: 385-412 PDF
12. Agrawal, Ajay, Alberto Galasso and Alexander Oettl (2017) “Roads and Innovation,” Review of Economics and Statistics 99: 417-434 PDF
13. Galasso, Alberto, Matthew Mitchell and Gabor Virag (2016) “Market Outcomes and Dynamic Patent Buyouts,” International Journal of Industrial Organization 48: 207-243 PDF
14. Galasso, Alberto and Mark Schankerman (2015) “Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 130: 317-369 PDF Economist
15. 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
16. 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
17. Galasso, Alberto, Mark Schankerman and Carlos Serrano (2013) “Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights,” RAND Journal of Economics 44: 275-312 PDF
18. Galasso, Alberto (2012) “Broad Cross-License Negotiations,” Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 21:873-911 PDF
19. 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
20. Galasso, Alberto and Timothy Simcoe (2011) “CEO Overconfidence and Innovation,” Management Science 57: 1469-1484 PDF
21. Galasso, Alberto (2010) “Over-Confidence May Reduce Negotiation Delay,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 76: 716-733 PDF
22. Galasso, Alberto and Mark Schankerman (2010) “Patent Thickets, Courts and the Market for Innovation,” RAND Journal of Economics 41: 472-503 PDF
23. 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 LINK
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 LINK
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
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
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