Petra MoserThat awesome feeling when a paper is finally & completely done: Copyrights and Creativity: Evidence from Italian Opera in the Napoleonic Age @JPolEconjournals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71… w @M_Giorcelli. Happy & moving on to examine the long-run effects of funding cuts on creativity
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I'm a Professor of Economics at NYU Stern. My research combines methods from economic history and applied microeconomics to examine the determinants of creativity and innovation . I study the...
A series of virtual seminars in economic history while we are all sheltering in place.
Petra MoserWe'll also have our first graduate student workshop this fall, co-organized by Benjamin Milner @hposte & @roussanoff. PhD students in year 3 & above please submit papers: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom….
Thank you all!
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The Aboriginal flag will be missing from the AFL Indigenous Round after a clothing company refuses to drop its copyright claim on it. Since WAM Clothing was given exclusive rights to the Aboriginal…
Petra MoserWAM, a clothing company, owns the copyright for Australia's aboriginal flag and uses it to issue cease and desist orders to competing aboriginal-owned clothing companies. Really?
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Zimmerman offers one of the few examinations of female entrepreneurship and patent activity in nineteenth-century Brazil. Analysing patent applications and business contracts registered by women in...
Petra MoserThis paper by @realdoctorz on female inventors & entrepreneurs looks super interesting link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…. So does the entire book. But I'm not going to pay $100 to read it. Congrats to Springer for once again slowing the diffusion of knowledge with excessive p @SpringerOpen
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The 2nd Workshop in Economic Complexity Innovation & Economic Geography is an event organized by Utrecht University, MIT, & INET to promote scholarly exchange on the geography and mechanisms that drive innovation and complexity at multiple...
China vowed retaliation after the U.S. forced the closure of its Houston consulate, in one of the biggest threats to diplomatic ties between the countries in decades.
The disruption caused by the coronavirus has also shown how stubborn traditional gender roles and pay disparities can be—and how women’s careers often take a back seat when duty calls at home.
Scott Kim, Wharton Petra Moser, NYU, NBER and CEPR
Petra MoserThis is super fresh and preliminary work. I just recorded a 20-min video vimeo.com/438563967 for @NBER Gender in the Economy Study Group. We'll be super grateful for comments. Thanks!
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School and daycare closures due to the COVID‐19 pandemic have increased caregiving responsibilities for working parents. As a result, many have changed their work hours to meet these growing demands....
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Petra Moser"Mothers with young children have reduced their work hours four to five times more than fathers.....the gender gap in work hours has grown by 20 to 50 percent."onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…. How will this affect women on the tenure track? 1/n
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This Viewpoint proposes strategies to ensure adequate supply and distribution of medication in the US during and beyond the coronavirus pandemic, including development and funding of a national essential medicines supply, allocation strategies to...