Publications: Iain M. Cockburn
 
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Recent Working Papers and Manuscripts

Pharmaceutical Pricing and Demand Studies
  • Berndt, Ernst, Iain Cockburn, Douglas Cocks, Arnold Epstein, and Zvi Griliches "Prescription Drug Prices for the Elderly." Monthly Labor Review, September 1998, 121(9), pp. 23-34
  • Ellison, Sarah, Iain Cockburn, Zvi Griliches, and Jerry Hausman "Characteristics of Demand for Pharmaceutical Products: An Examination of Four Cephalosporins." RAND Journal of Economics, 1997, 28(3), pp. 426-446.  abstract 
  • Berndt, Ernst, Iain Cockburn, and Zvi Griliches "Pharmaceutical Innovations and Market Dynamics: Tracking Effects on Price Indexes for Anti-Depressant Drugs." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Microeconomics, 1996, 1, pp. 133-188.
  • Griliches, Zvi, and Iain Cockburn, "Generics and New Goods in Pharmaceutical Price Indexes." American Economic Review, 1995, 84(5), pp. 1213-1232. abstract 
Economics of R&D
  • Cockburn, Iain "The Changing Structure of the Pharmaceutical Industry." Health Affairs, 2004, 23(1), pp.10-22. abstract 
  • Cockburn, Iain, and Rebecca Henderson "Scale and Scope in Drug Development: Unpacking the Advantages of Size in Pharmaceutical Research." Journal of Health Economics, 2001, 20(6), pp.1033-1057. abstract 
  • Cockburn, Iain, and Rebecca Henderson "Absorptive Capacity, Coauthoring Behavior, and the Organization of Research in Drug Discovery." Journal of Industrial Economics, 1998, 46(2), pp. 157-182. abstract 
  • Henderson, Rebecca, and Iain Cockburn, "Scale, Scope, and Spillovers: Determinants of Research Productivity in the Pharmaceutical Industry." RAND Journal of Economics, Spring 1996, 27(1), pp. 32-59.  abstract 
  • Cockburn, Iain, and Rebecca Henderson "Racing to Invest? The Dynamics of Competition in Ethical Drug Discovery." Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 1994, 3(3), pp. 481-519. abstract 
Business Strategy
  • Cockburn, Iain, Rebecca Henderson, and Scott Stern, "Untangling the Origins of Competitive Advantage." Strategic Management Journal, December 2000, 21(10-11), pp. 1123-1145.. abstract 
  • Amit, Raphael, Eitan Muller, and Iain Cockburn, "Opportunity Costs and Entrepreneurial Activity." Journal of Business Venturing, 1994, 10, pp. 95-106. abstract 
  • Henderson, Rebecca, and Iain Cockburn, "Measuring Competence: Exploring Firm Effects in Pharmaceutical Research." Strategic Management Journal, 1994, 15, pp. 63-84. abstract 
Patents and Intellectual Property
  • Cockburn, Iain "State Street Meets the Human Genome Project." Chapter in R. Hahn (ed.) Intellectual Property Rights in Frontier Industries, AEI-Brookings Press, 2005
  • Cockburn, Iain, and Paul Chwelos "Intellectual Property Rights and the Transition to the Knowledge-based Economy." In L. Lefebvre (ed.) Doing Business in the Knowledge-based Economy, JAI Press, 2001. 
  • Lanjouw, Jean, and Iain Cockburn "New Pills For Poor People? Empirical Evidence After GATT." World Development, February 2001, 29(2), pp. 265-289. abstract 
  • Cockburn, Iain, and Zvi Griliches, "Industry Effects and Appropriability Measures in the Stock Market's Valuation of R&D and Patents." American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 1988, 78(2), pp. 419-423. abstract 
Econometrics
  • Wang, Peiming, Marty Puterman, Nhu Le, and Iain Cockburn, "Mixed Poisson Models With Covariate-Dependent Rates," Biometrics, 1996, 52, pp. 381-400. 
  • Wang, Peiming, Iain Cockburn, and Marty Puterman "Analysis of Patent Data - A Mixed Poisson Regression Approach," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 1998, 16(1), pp. 27-41.
Pharmacoeconomics
  • Stafford, Randall, Curt Furberg, Stan Finkelstein, Iain Cockburn, Tseday Alehegn, and Jun Ma, "The Impact of Clinical Trial Results On National Trends in Alpha-Blocker Prescribing, 1996-2002." JAMA, 2004, 291, pp.54-62.
  • Ma Jun, Randall Stafford, Iain Cockburn, and Stan Finkelstein "A Statistical Analysis of the Magnitude and Composition of Drug Promotion in the U.S." Clinical Therapeutics, 2003; 25(5), pp.1503-1517.
  • Randall Stafford, Jun Ma, Stan Finkelstein, Kenan Haver, and Iain Cockburn "National Trends in Asthma Visits and Asthma Pharmacotherapy, 1978-2002." Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2003, 111(4), pp.729-735.
  • Cockburn, Iain, Howard Bailit, Ernst Berndt, and Stan Finkelstein, "Loss of Work Productivity Due to Illness and Medical Treatment." Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, November 1999, 41(11), pp. 1-6.
  • Cockburn, Iain, Howard Bailit, Ernst Berndt, and Stan Finkelstein "When Antihistamines Go To Work." Business and Health, March 1999, 17(3), pp. 49-50.

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