Dr Paul H. Jensen

Senior Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research,
Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA), and Centre for Microeconometrics, University of Melbourne.

Tel: +61 3 8344 2117
Fax: +61 3 8344 2111
Email: pjensen@unimelb.edu.au

Curriculum Vitae: (Full) (Brief)

Paul has been employed at the Melbourne Institute since September 2003. His current research interests are innovation, industry dynamics, health economics, climate change, and contract design. Much of his research has a strong public policy focus, and has been published in leading journals such as Economics Letters, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Journal of Economic Surveys, Australian Economic Review, and The Economic Record. In addition, he has recently undertaken commissioned research for IBM, the OECD, the European Commission, Asialink and the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet.

Most of his research papers can be downloaded from SSRN, which can be found at: http://ssrn.com/author=84996

Current Projects

Determinants of Successful Commercialisation: Evidence from a Survey of Australian Inventors (with Beth Webster).

The Effects of Patenting on the Scientific Environment (with Beth Webster, David Brennan and Brian Wright).

Incentives and Physicians' Behaviour (with Tony Scott, Stefanie Schurer, Peter Sivey and Helena Britt).

Recent Research Output

Books

Jensen, P.H. (2007). Public Sector Outsourcing Contracts: The Impact of Uncertainty, Incentives and Transaction Costs on Contractual Relationships, VDM Press.

Journal Articles

Palangkaraya, A., Jensen, P.H. and Webster, E. (2008). “Applicant behavior in examination request lags”, Economics Letters (forthcoming).

Jensen, P.H., Palangkaraya, A. and Webster, E. (2008). “Application outcomes and pendency times across four patent offices”, Australian Intellectual Property Journal (forthcoming).

Jensen, P.H., Webster, E. and Buddelmeyer, H. (2008). “Innovation, technological conditions and new firm survival”, The Economic Record (forthcoming).

Jensen, P.H. and Webster, E. (2008). “Labelling characteristics and demand for retail grocery products in Australia”, Australian Economic Papers 47(2), 129-40.

Jensen, P.H. and Webster, E. (2007). “Is Stern correct? Does climate change require policy action?”, Australian Economic Review 40(4), 421-31.

Webster, E., Palangkaraya, A., and Jensen, P.H. (2007). “Characteristics of international patent application outcomes”, Economics Letters 95, 362-68.

Webster, E., Buddelmeyer, H. and Jensen, P.H. (2007). “Innovation and industrial evolution”, Australian Economic Review 40(1), 82-9.

Bosland, J., Weatherall, K. and Jensen, P.H. (2006). “Trade mark and counterfeit litigation in Australia”, Intellectual Property Quarterly 10(4), 347-377. (Pdf file)

Jensen, P.H., Palangkaraya, A. and Webster, E. (2006). “Disharmony in international patent office decisions”, Federal Circuit Bar Journal 15(4), 679-704. (Pdf file)

Jensen, P.H. and Webster, E. (2006). “Firm size and the use of intellectual property rights”, The Economic Record 82 (March), 44-55. (Pdf file)

Webster, E. and Jensen, P.H. (2006). “Investment in intangible capital: An enterprise perspective”, The Economic Record 82 (March), 81-95. (Pdf file)

Jensen, P.H. and Stonecash, R.E. (2005). “Incentives and the efficiency of public sector outsourcing contracts”, Journal of Economic Surveys 19(5), 767-787. (Pdf file)

Weatherall, K.G. and Jensen, P.H. (2005). “An empirical investigation into patent enforcement in Australian courts”, Federal Law Review 33(2), 239-286. (Pdf file)

Working Papers (not yet published as journal articles)

Buddelmeyer, H., Jensen, P.H., Oguzoglu, U. and Webster, E. (2008). “Fixed effects bias in panel data estimators”, IZA Discussion Paper 3487, May. See http://www.iza.org/

Jensen, P.H., Palangkaraya, A. and Webster, E. (2008). "Misclassification in patent offices", IPRIA Working Paper 02/08, University of Melbourne. (Pdf file)

Jensen, P.H., Webster, E. and Witt, J. (2007). “Hospital type and patient outcomes: An empirical examination using AMI re-admission and mortality records”, Melbourne Institute Working Paper 31/07, University of Melbourne. (Pdf file). Revise and re-submit at Health Economics.

Buddelmeyer, H., Jensen, P.H. and Webster, E. (2006). “Innovation and the determinants of firm survival”, Melbourne Institute Working Paper 15/06, University of Melbourne, and IZA (University of Bonn) Discussion Paper No. 2386. (Pdf file). Revise and re-submit at Oxford Economic Papers.

Jensen, P.H. and Webster, E. (2006). “Managing knowledge flows through appropriation and learning strategies”, Melbourne Institute Working Paper 6/06, University of Melbourne. (Pdf file). Revise and re-submit at Industrial and Corporate Change.

Griffiths, W.E., Jensen, P.H. and Webster, E. (2005). “The effects on firm profits of the stock of intellectual property rights”, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) Working Paper 05/05, University of Melbourne. (Pdf file). Completely re-written version has been revised and re-submitted at Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

Jensen, P.H. and Stonecash, R.E. (2005). “Contract efficiency in the presence of demand and cost uncertainty”, Melbourne Institute Working Paper 1/05, University of Melbourne. (Pdf file). Revise and re-submit at Fiscal Studies.

Jensen, P.H. and Webster, E. (2004). “Examining biases in measures of firm innovation”, Melbourne Institute Working Paper 10/04, University of Melbourne. (Pdf file). Revise and re-submit at Australian Economic Papers.

Book Chapters/Reports

Jensen, P.H., Leahy, A. and Webster, E. (2008), IBM-Melbourne Institute Innovation Index of Australian Industry. For a copy, see http://www-03.ibm.com/press/au/en/presskit/24599.wss

Jensen, P.H. and Webster, E. (2007). Inter-generational Justice, Discount Rates and Climate Change. A Report Commissioned for the Garnaut Climate Change Review, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria.

Jensen, P.H. and Palangkaraya, A. (2006). “Company intellectual property scoreboards: An Australian perspective”, in Bosworth, D. and Webster, E. (eds.) The Management of Intellectual Property, Edward Elgar Press. (Pdf file)

Dent, C., Jensen, P.H., Waller, S. and Webster, E. (2006). Research Use of Patented Knowledge: A Review, STI Working Paper 2006/2, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris. (Pdf file)

Dent, C., Clarke, J., Jensen, P.H., Karahalios, N., Waller, S. and Weatherall, K. (2005). Copyright, the Arts and Artists in Australia: A Review, Final Report for the Australia Council, December.

Jensen, P.H., Morgan, O., Weatherall, K. and Webster, E. (2004). Factors Affecting the Use of Intellectual Property Protection by SMEs in Australia, A Report for the Commonwealth Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources, Canberra, February.

Submissions to Government Inquiries

Jensen, P.H., Palangkaraya, A. and Webster, E. (2006), Submission to the Productivity Commission Review of Public Support for Science and Innovation, July. (Pdf file)

Conference/Seminar Presentations

“Patent quality and misclassification”, presentation at the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Conference, Berne, Switzerland, 3-4th October 2008.

“Hospital type and patient outcomes: An empirical examination using AMI re-admission and mortality records” , Invited seminar presentation at the Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 30th September 2008.

“Hospital type and patient outcomes: An empirical examination using AMI re-admission and mortality records” , Invited seminar presentation at the Health Economics Research Unit (HERU), University of Aberdeen, 23rd September 2008.

“Knowledge management: Does capture impede creation?”, Paper accepted for the European Summer School on Industrial Dynamics (ESSID), Monte Saint Angelo, Italy, 1-6th September 2008.

“Innovation, technological conditions and new firm survival”, Paper accepted for Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Policies: The 2007 Ratio Colloquium for Young Social Scientists, Stockholm, 24-26th August 2007.

“Innovation, technological conditions and new firm survival”, Paper presented at the European School of New Institutional Economics (ESNIE) Workshop, Cargese, Corsica, 21-25th May 2007.

"Innovation, technological conditions and new firm survival", Centre for Microeconometrics Workshop, University of Melbourne, 22nd November 2006. (PowerPoint Presentation)

“Patent examination decisions and strategic trade behaviour”, Invited Presentation, George Washington University Law School, Washington DC, 11th September 2006. (Pdf file)

Newspaper Articles

Jensen, P. and Webster, E. (2007). “Making a measure for all innovation", The Age, 9th May, Business Day section, p.14. (Pdf file)

Jensen, P.H. and Webster, E. (2006). “Bright ideas needed to harness creativity”, Australian Financial Review, 10th August, p.63 (Also published in Australian R&D Review as “The problem with patents”, September). (Pdf file)

Weatherall, K.G. and Jensen, P.H. (2005). “Patents system is a lottery, but it's working well”, Australian Financial Review, 19th October, p.71. (Pdf file)