Lee Branstetter

Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy branstet@andrew.cmu.edu Tel.412-268-4649

Research:

Dr. Branstetter's research interests include international economics, the economics of technological innovation, industrial organization, East Asian economic growth, and the Japanese economy.

Publications:

"Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Panel Data," (with Raymond Fisman and C. Fritz Foley), Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 121, no 1, pp. 321-349
“Appendix to “Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase Technology Transfer?””
"When Do Research Consortia Work Well and Why? Evidence from Japanese Panel Data," with Mariko Sakakibara (UCLA), American Economic Review vol. 92, no. 1, March 2002, pp. 143-159.
"Do Stronger Patents Induce More Innovation," with Mariko Sakakibara (UCLA), RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 2001, pp. 77-100.
"Is Foreign Direct Investment a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from Japan's FDI in the United States," Journal of International Economics, vol. 68, Feb. 2006, pp. 325-344.
"Are Knowledge Spillovers International or Intranational in Scope? Microeconometric Evidence from the United States and Japan," published in the Journal of International Economics, February 2001.
"Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in China: A Political Economy Approach," with Robert Feenstra (UC-Davis), Journal of International Economics, vol. 58, no. 2, December 2002, pp. 335-358.
"Vertical Keiretsu and Knowledge Spillovers in Japanese Manufacturing: An Empirical Assessment," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, vol. 14, June 2000, pp. 73-104.
"Do Stronger Patents Induce More Local Innovation?" forthcoming in the Journal of International Economic Law. This article will also be reproduced in Keith Maskus and Jerome Reichman, eds., International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, Cambridge University Press.
"Has Japan’s Innovative Capacity Declined?" with Yoshiaki Nakamura (Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry; Government of Japan), in Anil Kashyap, Jenny Corbett, Magnus Blomstrom, and Fumio Hayashi, (eds.), Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan, 2003, University of Chicago Press and NBER.
"Measuring the Impact of U.S. Research Consortia," with Mariko Sakakibara (UCLA), Managerial and Decision Economics, vol. 24, Spring 2003, pp. 51-69.
"Japanese Research Consortia: A Microeconometric Analysis of Industrial Policy," with Mariko Sakakibara (UCLA), Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. 46, no. 2, June 1998, pp. 207-233.
"Looking for International Knowledge Spillovers: A Review of the Literature with Suggestions for New Approaches," Annales d’Economie et de Statistique No. 49/50, 1998, pp. 517-540. Reprinted in D. Encaoua et. al., (eds.), The Economics and Econometrics of Innovation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
"Foreign Direct Investment and R&D Spillovers: Is There a Connection?" in Takatoshi Ito and Anne Krueger, (eds.) The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in East Asian Economic Development, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2000.
"Does Cash Flow Cause Investment and R&D? An Exploration Using Panel Data from French, Japanese, and United States Scientific Firms," with Bronwyn Hall (UC-Berkeley), Jacques Mairesse (EHESS and CREST, Paris), and Bruno Crepon, (INSEE), in David Audretsch and Roy Thurik, (eds.) Innovation, Industry Evolution, and Employment, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
New Business Investment Company: October 1997," with Joshua Lerner (HBS) and Takeshi Nakabayashi (NBI), Harvard Business School Case No. N9-299-025, 1999.
"China’s Changing Role in East Asia and the World Economy," (in Japanese), in MITI Research Review, vol. 14, March 2000, pp. 98-121.
"Technology Spillovers in Production Keiretsu," (in Japanese) in Financial Review vol. 46, Special Issue "Human Investment and R&D," July 1998, pp. 72-86.

Working Papers

China's Embrace of Globalization, with Nicholas Lardy (institute for International Economics). Revised for inclusion in China's Economic Transition: Origins, Mechanisms, and Consequences, edited by Loren Brandt and Thomas Rawski.

Is Academic Science Driving a Surge in Industrial Innovation? Evidence from Patent Citations, with Yoshiaki Ogura (Koyoto University), NBER working paper no. 11561. Currently under review.
Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence, with Kamal Saggi (SMU), Ray Fisman (Columbia), and Fritz Foley (HBS), Columbia Business School Working paper.

Education

Northwestern University, BA in Economics and Mathematical Methods in the Social Services (MMSS), 1991
Harvard University, Ph.D. in Economics, 1996