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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

innovation. Unlike previous literature based on survey data, we exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the .revealed …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670637

Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the 'revealed preference' of developers - to infer the underlying …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789146

Innovativity: A comparison across seven European countries

Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques; Dagenais, Marcel - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …

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Market Failure and the Poverty of New Drugs in Maternal Health

Fisk, Nicholas M; Atun, Rifat - eSocialSciences - 2008

A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than 3% of the pipeline in cardiovascular health (660 drugs). The international agencies have forgotten pregnant women. Given the unacceptably high number of maternal and perinatal...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341686

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

Brusoni, Stefano; Crespi, Gustavo; Francoz, Dominique; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124480

Recent Financial Market Developments and Implications for Monetary Policy

Mohan, Rakesh - eSocialSciences - 2007

The nature of the financial turbulence that happened recently in US and Europe, why it happened, where it happened, and the implications for central banks. Some of the forces that led up to and characterized the recent spate of events, the specific responses of central banks and some challenges...

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Team Governance: Empowerment or Hierarchical Control

Friebel, Guido; Schnedler, Wendelin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members, interventions that the manager undertakes in order to...

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Does Performance Pay De-Motivate, and Does It Matter?

French, Stephen; Kubo, Katsuyuki; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001

The sheer scale and speed of the shift of payment system from time-based salaries to performance-related pay, PRP, in the British public services provides a unique opportunity to test the effects of incentive pay schemes. This study is based on the first large scale survey designed to measure...

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Is Seniority-Based Pay Used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant Level Data

Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdon-Sanchez, Jose E.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

In this paper we use data from industrial plants to investigate if seniority-based pay is used asa motivational device for production workers. Alternatively, seniority-based pay could simplybe a wage setting rule not necessarily related to the provision of incentives. Unlike previouspapers, we...

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Matchmaking: the Influence of Monitoring Environments on the Effectiveness of Performance Pay Systems

Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This study uses cross-section and panel data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey to explore contextual influences on the relationship between performance-related pay (PRP) and organizational performance. While it finds strong evidence that the use of PRP can enhance performance...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017131