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Economics and Finance
New Zealand
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
73
Citations
96782
World Ranking
379
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in New Zealand Leader Award

Overview

Adam B. Jaffe is affiliated with Motu Economic and Public Policy Research in New Zealand. Their research activities focus extensively on the intersection of economics, innovation, and intellectual property.

Their recent papers cover various aspects of patent quality, innovation policy, and research funding. Notable publications include:

  • Patent Quality: Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement (2021, Research Policy)
  • Low-Quality Patents in the Eye of the Beholder: Evidence from Multiple Examiners (2020, The Journal of Law Economics and Organization)
  • Research Funding and Collaboration (2021, Research Policy)
  • Linguistic Metrics for Patent Disclosure: Evidence from University versus Corporate Patents (2022, Research Policy)
  • Linking Scientific Research and Energy Innovation: A Comparison of Clean and Dirty Technologies (2021, Energy Research & Social Science)

Their frequent co-authors include Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Joel Waldfogel, Kyle Higham, Jason Gush, and Louisa Owens.

Adam B. Jaffe's work is often published in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Research Policy, The Journal of Law Economics and Organization, Global Health Research and Policy, and Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy.

The scientist's main fields of study are Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Business, Management and Accounting. More granular subfields include Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, and Artificial Intelligence.

The major topics addressed in their research encompass:

  • Intellectual Property and Patents
  • Innovation Policy and R&D
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Scientometrics and Bibliometrics Research
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Law, AI, and Intellectual Property

Best Publications

  • Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations

    Adam B. Jaffe;Manuel Trajtenberg;Rebecca Henderson

  • Technological Opportunity and Spillovers of R&D: Evidence from Firms' Patents, Profits, and Market Value

    Adam B. Jaffe

  • Real Effects of Academic Research

    Adam B Jaffe

  • Technological Opportunity and Spillovers of R&D: Evidence from Firms' Patents, Profits and Market Value

    Adam B. Jaffe;Adam B. Jaffe;Adam B. Jaffe

  • Market value and patent citations

    Bronwyn H. Hall;A Jaffe;M Trajtenberg

  • The NBER Patent Citations Data File: Lessons, Insights and Methodological Tools

    Bronwyn H Hall;Adam B Jaffe;Manuel Trajtenberg

  • The NBER Patent Citation Data File: Lessons, Insights and Methodological Tools

    Bronwyn H. Hall;Adam B. Jaffe;Manuel Trajtenberg

  • The NBER Patent Citation Data File: Lessons, Insights and Methodological Tools

    Bronwyn H Hall;Adam B Jaffe;Adam B Jaffe;Adam B Jaffe;Manuel Trajtenberg;Manuel Trajtenberg;Manuel Trajtenberg

  • Environmental Regulation and Innovation: A Panel Data Study

    Adam B. Jaffe;Karen Palmer

  • Environmental Regulation and the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?

    Adam B. Jaffe;Steven R. Peterson

  • Market Value and Patent Citations: A First Look

    Bronwyn H Hall;Adam B Jaffe;Manuel Trajtenberg

  • Universities as a Source of Commercial Technology: A Detailed Analysis of University Patenting, 1965–1988

    Rebecca Henderson;Adam B. Jaffe;Manuel Trajtenberg

  • A tale of two market failures: Technology and environmental policy

    Adam B. Jaffe;Richard G. Newell;Robert N. Stavins

  • The energy-efficiency gap What does it mean?

    Adam B. Jaffe;Robert N. Stavins

  • Innovation and Its Discontents

    Adam B. Jaffe;Josh Lerner

  • Patents, Citations, and Innovations: A Window on the Knowledge Economy

    Manuel Trajtenberg;Adam B. Jaffe

  • Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It

    Adam B. Jaffe;Joshua Lerner

  • Who Does R&D and Who Patents?

    John Bound;Clint Cummins;Zvi Griliches;Bronwyn H. Hall

  • University Versus Corporate Patents: A Window On The Basicness Of Invention

    Manuel Trajtenberg;Rebecca Henderson;Adam Jaffe

  • How High are the Giants' Shoulders: An Empirical Assessment of Knowledge Spillovers and Creative Destruction in a Model of Economic Growth

    Ricardo J. Caballero;Adam B. Jaffe

  • Environmental policy and technological change

    Adam B. Jaffe;Richard G. Newell;Robert N. Stavins

  • The induced innovation hypothesis and energy-saving technological change

    Richard G. Newell;Adam B. Jaffe;Robert N. Stavins

  • Knowledge Spillovers and Patent Citations: Evidence from a Survey of Inventors

    Adam B. Jaffe;Manuel Trajtenberg;Michael S. Fogarty

  • Universities as a Source of Commercial Technology: A Detailed Analysis of University Patenting 1965-1988

    Rebecca Henderson;Adam Jaffe

Frequent Co-Authors

Josh Lerner
Josh Lerner Harvard University
Manuel Trajtenberg
Manuel Trajtenberg Tel Aviv University
Robert N. Stavins
Robert N. Stavins Harvard University
Bronwyn H. Hall
Bronwyn H. Hall University of California, Berkeley
David Popp
David Popp Syracuse University
John Bound
John Bound University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Karen L. Palmer
Karen L. Palmer Resources For The Future

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