Michael D. Frakes

Works in Progress

Deadlines Versus Continuous Incentives: Evidence From the Patent Office (January 1, 2024) (with Melissa F. Wasserman)
Racial Concordance and the Quality of Medical Care: Evidence from the Military (January 1, 2023) (with Jonathan Gruber)
Racial Disparities in Health Care: Geographic Causes and the Impact of Geographic Standardization in Malpractice Standard of Care Rules (January 1, 2023)

Articles & Essays

Public and Private Options in Practice: The Military Health System, 15 American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 37-74 (2023) (with others)
Investing in Ex Ante Regulation: Evidence From Pharmaceutical Patent Examination, 15 American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 151-183 (2023) (with Melissa F. Wasserman)
Are Constitutional Rights Enough? An Empirical Assessment of Racial Bias in Police Stops, 116 Northwestern University Law Review 1481-1545 (2022) (with Rohit Asirvatham)
Is Great Information Good Enough? Evidence from Physicians as Patients 75 Journal of Health Economics, Article 102406, 1-20 (2020) (with others)
Knowledge Spillovers, Peer Effects, and Telecommuting: Evidence From the U.S. Patent Office, 198 Journal of Public Economics 1-17 (2021) (with Melissa F. Wasserman)
Are There as Many Trademark Offices as Trademark Examiners?, 69 Duke Law Journal 1807-1853 (2020) (with Melissa F. Wasserman)
Defensive Medicine and Obstetric Practices: Evidence from the Military Health System, 17 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 4-37 (2020) (with Jonathan Gruber)
Malpractice Liability and Health Care Quality: A Review, 323 JAMA 352-366 (2020) (with others)
Procrastination at the Patent Office?, 183 Journal of Public Economics 1-12 (2020) (with Melissa F. Wasserman)
The Effect of Malpractice Law on Physician Supply: Evidence from Negligence-Standard Reforms , 70 Journal of Health Economics, Article 102272, 1-16 (2020) (with others)
Do Patent Law Suits Target Invalid Patents?, in Selection and Decision in the Judicial Process Around the World: Empirical Inquiries 6-29 (Yun-chien Chang, ed., 2019) (with Melissa F. Wasserman)
Empirical Scholarship on the Prosecution Process at the USPTO, in Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law 77-91 (Ben Depoorter, Peter Menell and David Schwartz, eds., 2019) (with Melissa Wasserman)
Irrational Ignorance at the Patent Office, 72 Vanderbilt Law Review 975-1030 (2019) (with Melissa F. Wasserman)
Patent Trial and Appeal Board's Consistency-Enhancing Function, 104 Iowa Law Review 2417-2446 (2019) (with Melissa F. Wasserman)
Review of Neurosurgery Medical Professional Liability Claims in the United States, 83 Neurosurgery 997-1006 (2018) (with others)
Decreasing the Patent Office’s Incentives to Grant Invalid Patents, Hamilton Project, Policy Proposal 2017-17 (2017) (with Melissa F. Wasserman)
Challenges to Reducing Discrimination and Health Inequity Through Existing Civil Rights Laws, 36 Health Affairs 1041-1047 (2017) (with others)
Is the Time Allocated to Review Patent Applications Inducing Examiners to Grant Invalid Patents? Evidence from Microlevel Application Data , 99 Review of Economics and Statistics 550-563 (2017) (with Melissa Wasserman)
Knowledge Spillovers and Learning in the Workplace: Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office (NBER Working Paper No. 24159, December 2017) (with Melissa F. Wasserman)
The Economics of Healthcare Rationing, in The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law 914-933 (I. Glenn Cohen et al. eds., 2017) (with others)
Does Medical Malpractice Law Improve Health Care Quality?, 143 Journal of Public Economics 142-158 (November 2016) (with Anupam B. Jena)
Patent Office Cohorts, 65 Duke Law Journal 1601-1655 (2016) (with Melissa Wasserman)
Do Physicians Respond to Liability Standards?, 171 Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics 58-77 (2015) (with others)
Does the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Grant Too Many Bad Patents?: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment, 67 Stanford Law Review 613-676 (2015) (with Melissa Wasserman)
The Effect of Statutory Rape Laws on Teen Birth Rates, 17 American Law & Economics Review 409-461 (2015) (with Matthew C. Harding)
The Surprising Relevance of Medical Malpractice Law, 82 University of Chicago Law Review 317-391 (2015)
The Failed Promise of User Fees: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 11 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 602-636 (2014) (with Melissa Wasserman)
Does Agency Funding Affect Decisionmaking?: An Empirical Assessment of the PTO's Granting Patterns, 66 Vanderbilt Law Review 67-125 (2013) (with Melissa Wasserman)
The Impact of Medical Liability Standards on Regional Variations in Physician Behavior: Evidence from the Adoption of National-Standard Rules, 103 American Economic Review 257-276 (2013)
Defensive Medicine and Obstetric Practices, 9 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 457-481 (2012)
The Deterrent Effect of Death Penalty Eligibility: Evidence from the Adoption of Child Murder Eligibility Factors, 11 American Law & Economics Review 451-497 (2009) (with Matthew Harding)
Classified Boards and Firm Value, 32 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 113-158 (2007)
Does Falling Smoking Lead to Rising Obesity?, 25 Journal of Health Economics 183-197 (2006) (with Jonathan Gruber)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Do as the Doctor Says, Not as He or She Does, STAT (July 22, 2019) (with others)
Reducing Patent Application Backlog to Improve Patent Quality, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Commentaries (March 12, 2016) (with Melissa F. Wasserman)
Revising Patent Examiner’s Time Allocations, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Commentaries (March 12, 2016) (with Melissa F. Wasserman)
Improving Patent Quality by Reducing the Patent Office’s Backlog of Applications, The Regulatory Review (April 13, 2015) (with Melissa F. Wasserman)
Evaluating the PTO’s Proposed Fee Structure, The Regulatory Review (September 10, 2012) (with Melissa F. Wasserman)

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