- Licence: All material on this site including these papers are made available under the open licence detailed on the copying page.
- Organization: (roughly) material is organized by subject matter then by time of update with the most recent first.
- Other material: Other information, including announcements and more informal discussion, can be found on the main ‘blog’ section of the site in the Economics category.
- Contacting me: details on how to contact me can be found on the About/Contact page.
Recently Added/Updated
- 2009-07: The Dissemination of Scholarly Information: Old Approaches and New Possibilities (pdf) with Omar Al-Ubaydli
- Current methods of disseminating scholarly information focus on the use of journals who retain exclusive rights in the material they publish. Using a simple model, this paper explores the technological reasons for this choice in the past, why it is no longer efficient and how it could be improved upon. (See this post for a longer overview)
- 2009-03: The Economics of Public Sector Information (pdf)
- For those who want to keep things brief here’s a page summarizing the funding options for PSI
- 2009-01: Changing the Numbers: UK Directory Enquiries Deregulation and the Failure of Choice (pdf)
- 2008-12: Theories of Contextual Judgement in Relation to Well-Being and Other Outcomes
- 2008-11: Innovation, Imitation and Open Source
- 2008-10: Forever Minus a Day? Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright Term (pdf)
- 2008-09: Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and Regulation in Internet Search (pdf)
By Subject Area
Knowledge Production, Innovation and Intellectual Property
Forever Minus a Day? Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright Term
- Last Updated: 2008-10 (created: 2008-01).
- Link: Forever Minus a Day? Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright Term (pdf).
- Slides: Slides from a talk at Stanford
- Comments: a very* revised version of the second half of the original ‘Forever Minus a Day’ paper focused exclusively on copyright term.
Models of Public Sector Information Provision via Trading Funds
- Published: 2008-03-12 by BERR (UK Government Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform)
- Link: Models of Public Sector Information Provision via Trading Funds (pdf)
- This report was commissioned by HM Treasury and BERR and jointly written by myself, Professor Newbery (Cambridge University Economics Department) and Professor Bently (Cambridge University Law Department/CIPIL). For more details see the blog post
Optimal Copyright over Time: Technological Change and the Stock of Works
- Published: 2007-12 in Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues.
- Link: Optimal Copyright over Time: Technological Change and the Stock of Works (pdf, local copy)
- Comments: a revised version of the first half of the original ‘Forever Minus a Day’ paper.
The Economics of Knowledge: A Review of the Theoretical Literature
- Last Updated: 2007-10 (created 2007-04).
- Link: The Economics of Knowledge: A Review of the Theoretical Literature
- Abstract: A selective review of the existing theoretical literature related to the economics of knowledge with particular attention to intellectual property, especially in the form of patents.
Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright
- Last Updated: 2008-01 (created: 2007-01).
- Link: Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright (pdf).
- There are also Slides from the presentation of ‘Forever Minus a Day?’ at SERCIAC 2007 (pdf).
Cumulative Innovation, Sampling and the Hold-up Problem
- Last Updated: 2007-08-10 (created: 2006-06-19).
- Link: Cumulative Innovation, Sampling and the Hold-up Problem (pdf)
Innovation and Imitation with and without Intellectual Property Rights
- Last Updated: 2007-07-17 (created: 2006-12-19).
- Link: Innovation and Imitation with and without Intellectual Property Rights (pdf).
The Value of the Public Domain
- Published: 2006-07-14 by the Institute for Public Policy Research as part of the their series on IP and the Public Sphere.
- Link: The Value of the Public Domain (pdf) (local copy and an html version).
P2P, Online File-Sharing, and the Music Industry: A Summary of the Literature
- Last Updated: 2007-11-07 (created: 2005-11).
- Link: P2P, Online File-Sharing, and the Music Industry: A Summary of the Literature
The Importance of Patents for Innovation in the Industrial Revolution
- Last Updated: 2004-04.
- Link: The Importance of Patents for Innovation in the Industrial Revolution (html) (pdf version)
- Comments: MPhil Essay in Economic History.
Competition and Antitrust especially in Platform Markets
Changing the Numbers: UK Directory Enquiries Deregulation and the Failure of Choice
- Last Updated: 2009-01 (created: 2008-06) ~NEW~
- Link:Changing the Numbers: UK Directory Enquiries Deregulation and the Failure of Choice
Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and Regulation in Internet Search
- Last Updated: 2008-09 (created: 2008-04). ~NEW~
- Link: Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and Regulation in Internet Search (pdf)
The Control of Porting in Two-Sided Markets
- Last Updated: 2008-02 (created: 2007-02).
- Link: The Control of Porting (v2.0) (pdf). A significantly updated and revised version of the original paper.
- 2005-07 (revised 2006-09): The Control of Porting (v1.0) (pdf)
To Be Compatible or Not To Be Compatible: Strategy and Compatibility Choice in Network Markets with Special Attention to Microsoft
- Last Updated: 2004-07.
- Link: To Be Compatible or Not To Be Compatible: Strategy and Compatibility Choice in Network Markets with Special Attention to Microsoft (pdf) (xml src version)
- MPhil Dissertation.
General Interest
- 2005-08: The Fixed Cost Fallacy. General essay.
- 2005-04 (Revised 2006-01): Setting the Defaults for Intellectual Property Policy
- 2003: Why Politicians are Dishonest (pdf)
- 2003: Policy Change and the UK Housing Market (pdf). All associated source files (data, code and .tex) may be found in housing/.
