Josh Lerner

45 catalog papers. Identity-linked publications and additional name matches are distinguished below.

ORCID: 0000-0003-3822-2162

Harvard University and NBER , USA

Publications

• The Diffusion of New Technologies — The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2025
• The (Heterogeneous) Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts — Management Science 2025
• Financial Innovation in the Twenty-First Century: Evidence from US Patents — Journal of Political Economy 2024
• Anticorruption, Government Subsidies, and Innovation: Evidence from China — Management Science 2023
• Investing outside the box: Evidence from alternative vehicles in private equity — Journal of Financial Economics 2022 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
• The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Finance and Beyond — The Review of Financial Studies 2022
• Mutual Funds as Venture Capitalists? Evidence from Unicorns — The Review of Financial Studies 2021
• Private Equity and Financial Fragility during the Crisis — The Review of Financial Studies 2019
• Pay now or pay later? The economics within the private equity partnership — Journal of Financial Economics 2019
• The globalization of angel investments: Evidence across countries — Journal of Financial Economics 2018 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
• Private Equity and Industry Performance — Management Science 2017
• Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China — The Review of Financial Studies 2017
• Making Private Data Accessible in an Opaque Industry: The Experience of the Private Capital Research Institute — American Economic Review 2016
• The disintermediation of financial markets: Direct investing in private equity — Journal of Financial Economics 2015
• Standard-Essential Patents — Journal of Political Economy 2015
• Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity — American Economic Review 2014
• The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: Evidence from Angel Financings — The Review of Financial Studies 2014
• Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing — The Review of Financial Studies 2013
• With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship — The Review of Financial Studies 2013
• Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation — The Journal of Finance 2011
• Contractibility and the Design of Research Agreements — American Economic Review 2010
• Performance persistence in entrepreneurship — Journal of Financial Economics 2010 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
• The performance of reverse leveraged buyouts — Journal of Financial Economics 2009
• The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues — American Economic Review 2009
• Venture capital investment cycles: The impact of public markets — Journal of Financial Economics 2008 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
• Smart Institutions, Foolish Choices: The Limited Partner Performance Puzzle — The Journal of Finance 2007
• The new new financial thing: The origins of financial innovations — Journal of Financial Economics 2006
• NBER Conference on corporate alliances — Journal of Financial Economics 2006 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
• The Dynamics of Open-Source Contributors — American Economic Review 2006
• A Model of Forum Shopping — American Economic Review 2006
• Does Legal Enforcement Affect Financial Transactions? The Contractual Channel in Private Equity — The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2005
• Entrepreneurial Spawning: Public Corporations and the Genesis of New Ventures, 1986 to 1999 — The Journal of Finance 2005
• Efficient Patent Pools — American Economic Review 2004
• The illiquidity puzzle: theory and evidence from private equity — Journal of Financial Economics 2004 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
• The Really Long-Run Performance of Initial Public Offerings: The Pre-Nasdaq Evidence — The Journal of Finance 2003
• Do equity financing cycles matter? evidence from biotechnology alliances — Journal of Financial Economics 2003 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
• Where DoesState StreetLead? A First Look at Finance Patents, 1971 to 2000 — The Journal of Finance 2002
• 150 Years of Patent Protection — American Economic Review 2002
• Money chasing deals? The impact of fund inflows on private equity valuations — Journal of Financial Economics 2000
• An analysis of compensation in the U.S. venture capital partnership1 — Journal of Financial Economics 1999 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
• What is behind the recent surge in patenting?1 — Research Policy 1999
• Venture Capital Distributions: Short-Run and Long-Run Reactions — The Journal of Finance 1998
• Venture Capitalists and the Oversight of Private Firms — The Journal of Finance 1995
• Learning by Investing: Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Venture Capital — The Review of Financial Studies
• What Do Impact Investors Do Differently? — The Review of Financial Studies