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Frey, Bruno - In: International Review of Economics 56 (2009) 4, pp. 335-346

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Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State

Levine, David; Modica, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence of outsiders is small we show that this results in a tendency to hegemony. In a simple example in which institutions differ in their "exclusiveness" we find that these...

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Growth and Intellectual Property

Levine, David; Boldrin, Michele - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Intellectual property (IP) protection involves a trade-off between the undesirability of monopoly and the desirable encouragement of creation and innovation. Optimal policy depends on the quantitative strength of these two forces. We give a quantitative assessment of current IP policies. We...

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Pareto Improvements in the Contest for College Admissions

Krishna, Kala; Lychagin, Sergey; Olszewski, Wojciech; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

College admissions in many countries are based on a centrally administered test. Applicants invest a great deal of resources to improve their performance on the test, and there is growing concern about the large costs associated with these activities. We consider modifying such tests by...

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Computer Mediated Transactions

Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10

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Intellectual property rights and the evolution of scientific journals as knowledge platforms

Fehder, Daniel C.; Murray, Fiona; Stern, Scott - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 36 (2014) C, pp. 83-94

downstream demand for knowledge that is initially disclosed through scientific publication in fields where research is generated … and utilized across different institutional settings (i.e., academia versus industry). For scientific discoveries with … knowledge disclosed in a given scientific journal. This paper evaluates the relationship between scientific journal publication …

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Ranking Israel's Economists

Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

’s academic economists and economics departments, ranking them according to the number of citations on their work. It also … provides a vista into one of the primary reasons given by junior Israeli economists for an unparalleled brain drain from the …

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Performance responses to competition across skill-levels in rank order tournaments : field evidence and implications for tournament design

Boudreau, Kevin J.; Helfat, Constance E.; Lakhani, Karim R. - 2013

Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual data on 2,775 contestants in 755 software algorithm development contests with random assignment. The performance response to added contestants varies non-monotonically across contestants of...

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How Nobel Laureates would perform in the Handelsblatt Ranking

Krapf, Matthias; Schläpfer, Jörg - 2012

compare the outcome to the Handelsblatt ranking of economists in the Germanspeaking area. Our analysis focuses on whether the …

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Demographic Diversity and Economic Research : Fields of Specialization and Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality

Antman, Francisca M.; Doran, Kirk B.; Qian, Xuechao; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using dissertation research topics found in the EconLit database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find that underrepresented racial and ethnic minority (URM)...

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