Heidi L. Williams

MIT Department of Economics

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Do Fixed Patent Terms Distort Innovation?: Evidence from Cancer Clinical Trials

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Do Fixed Patent Terms Distort Innovation?: Evidence from Cancer Clinical Trials

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 13-79
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 15 Nov 2013
Eric B. Budish, Benjamin N. Roin and Heidi L. Williams
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, affiliation not provided to SSRN and MIT Department of Economics
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Do Firms Underinvest in Long-Term Research? Evidence from Cancer Clinical Trials

NBER Working Paper No. w19430
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 14 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2023
Eric B. Budish, Benjamin N. Roin and Heidi L. Williams
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, affiliation not provided to SSRN and MIT Department of Economics
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Advanced Purchase Commitments for a Malaria Vaccine: Estimating Costs and Effectiveness

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Apr 2005
Ernst R. Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer, Jean Lee, Ruth Levine, Georg Weizsacker and Heidi L. Williams
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard University, Center for Global Development, Humboldt University Berlin and MIT Department of Economics
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Advance purchase commitment, R&D, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, malaria

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How Do Patents Affect Follow-On Innovation? Evidence from the Human Genome

NBER Working Paper No. w21666
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 26 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2023
Bhaven N. Sampat and Heidi L. Williams
Columbia University - Mailman School of Public Health and MIT Department of Economics
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Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from Health Care Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w21246
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2023
Heidi L. Williams
MIT Department of Economics
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Advanced Purchase Commitments for a Malaria Vaccine: Estimating Costs and Effectiveness

LSE STICERD Research Paper No. PEPP02
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Jul 2008
Ernst R. Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer, Jean Lee, Ruth Levine, GEORG WEIZSÄCKER and Heidi L. Williams
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard University, Center for Global Development, affiliation not provided to SSRN and MIT Department of Economics
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How Do Patents Affect Research Investments?

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How Do Patents Affect Research Investments?

NBER Working Paper No. w23088
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2023
Heidi L. Williams
MIT Department of Economics
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How Do Patents Affect Research Investments?

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 9, pp. 441-469, 2017
Posted: 14 Aug 2017
Heidi L. Williams
MIT Department of Economics

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The More We Die, the More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect

NBER Working Paper No. w22538
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 25 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2023
Arnaud Costinot, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson, Dave Donaldson, Margaret Kyle and Heidi L. Williams
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of EconomicsUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Stanford University - Department of Economics, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris - Centre d'Économie Industrielle (CERNA) and MIT Department of Economics
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Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Human Genome

NBER Working Paper No. w16213
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2023
Heidi L. Williams
MIT Department of Economics
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Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient? Evidence from Prescription Drugs

NBER Working Paper No. w23068
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 23 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2023
Margaret Kyle and Heidi L. Williams
École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris - Centre d'Économie Industrielle (CERNA) and MIT Department of Economics
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Advance Market Commitments for Vaccines Working Paper and Spread Sheet

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 98
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 02 May 2007
Ernst R. Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer, Jean Lee, Ruth Levine, Georg Weizsacker and Heidi L. Williams
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard University, Center for Global Development, Humboldt University Berlin and MIT Department of Economics
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advance market commitment, vaccine, disease, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, cost-effective

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Who Profits from Patents? Rent-Sharing at Innovative Firms

NBER Working Paper No. w25245
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 13 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2023
Patrick Kline, Neviana Petkova, Heidi L. Williams and Owen Zidar
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, Government of the Italian Republic (Italy) - Department of the Treasury, MIT Department of Economics and Princeton University
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Patents and Research Investments: Assessing the Empirical Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w21889
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 20 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2022
Eric B. Budish, Benjamin N. Roin and Heidi L. Williams
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, affiliation not provided to SSRN and MIT Department of Economics
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Optimal Vaccine Subsidies for Endemic and Epidemic Diseases

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Optimal Vaccine Subsidies for Endemic and Epidemic Diseases

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2020-162
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 17 Nov 2020
Matthew Goodkin-Gold, Michael Kremer, Christopher M. Snyder and Heidi L. Williams
Harvard University, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and MIT Department of Economics
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Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-Risk Newborns

NBER Working Paper No. w14522
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 08 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2022
Douglas Almond, Joseph J. Doyle, Amanda Kowalski and Heidi L. Williams
Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Economics, Finance, Accounting (EFA), University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and MIT Department of Economics
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Why is Infant Mortality Higher in the Us than in Europe?

NBER Working Paper No. w20525
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 30 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2023
Alice Chen, Emily F. Oster and Heidi L. Williams
University of Southern California - Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and MIT Department of Economics
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Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care: Evidence from Patient Migration

NBER Working Paper No. w20789
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 29 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2023
Amy Finkelstein, Matthew Gentzkow and Heidi L. Williams
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and MIT Department of Economics
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Citation 134

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Advanced Purchase Commitments for a Malaria Vaccine: Estimating Costs and Effectiveness

NBER Working Paper No. w11288
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 14 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2022
Ernst R. Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer, Jean Lee, Ruth Levine, Georg Weizsacker and Heidi L. Williams
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard University, Center for Global Development, Humboldt University Berlin and MIT Department of Economics
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Paying on the Margin for Medical Care: Evidence from Breast Cancer Treatments

NBER Working Paper No. w20226
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 16 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2023
Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Heidi L. Williams
Stanford University - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and MIT Department of Economics
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