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-mode interaction (with consultants, universities, and research centres) and DUI-mode interaction, distinguishing between DUI …
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with panel data on U.S. universities for 1995-99. We find that private universities are much more likely to adopt incentive …. Adopting incentive pay is associated with about 30-40 percent more income per license. Universities with strong local …
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achieve the goal of greater economic growth. We argue that state-supported research universities can be used to integrate …-level economic policies. There is an opportunity at research universities to combine the human capital talent available on faculties …
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nearly 250 departments across 100+ UK universities. We find large differences in management scores across universities and … that departments in older, research-intensive universities score higher than departments in newer, more teaching …-oriented universities. We also find that management matters in universities. The scores, particularly with respect to provision of …
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This paper is concerned with the influence of agglomeration economies on economic outcomes across British regions. The concentration of economic activity in one place can foster economic performance due to the reduction in transportation costs, the ready availability of customers and suppliers,...
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academic research councils, universities, and government undertaken work on civil and military R&D. To evaluate these questions …
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This Paper investigates how the legal framework not only affects the amount of external financing available, but also firms’ resource allocation among different types of assets. Using a simple model, we show that in a weaker legal environment a firm will get less financing, and thus invest...
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This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...
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We attempt to replicate for the UK the Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2005, 2006) work on spending on intangible assets in the US. Their work suggests private sector expenditure (investment) on intangibles is about 13% (11%) of US GDP 1998-2000, with intangible investment about equal to tangible...
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Decentralization can lead to "good" or "bad" outcomes depending on the socio-cultural norms of the targeted communities. We investigate this issue by looking at the evolution of familism and nepotism in the Italian academia before and after the 1998 reform, which decentralized the recruitment of...
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