Plausibly Exogenous [765] - Patent Publication (02/22/2022)
LHS Variable
Innovation
RHS Variable
Publication of patents
Source of Exogenous Variation
The passage of the American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA), which accelerated the public disclosure of most U.S. patents by two years
- Hegde, Herkenhoff, and Zhu (2022), “Patent Publication and Innovation”