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, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …
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and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …
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This paper sheds light on the questions, Why does knowledge spill over? and How does knowledge spill over? The answer to these questions lies in the incentives confronting scientists to appropriate the expected value of their knowledge considered in the context of their path-dependent career...
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from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of …
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This Paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate arising from the genome case on public versus private research, the Paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
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We investigate whether providers of high frequency news analytics affect the stock market. As identification, we exploit a unique experiment based on differences in news event classifications between different product releases of a major provider of news analytics. We document a causal effect of...
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information in investor demand co-exists with the presence of capacity constraints in hedge fund returns, confirming two main …
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information is endogenous, and jointly determined with policy opinions. We therefore estimate a causal effect of information, with … effect of better information on the willingness to accept reforms that reduce the generosity of the pension system. Finally … we do not find that exposure to media coverage of pension issues significantly improves information, possibly because …
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This Paper analyses the effect of a possible takeover on information flows and on the terms of trade in business …
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This paper challenges the widespread view that forward exchange premia contain little information regarding subsequent … cointegrating space. Dynamic forecasts indicate that the information in the forward premia can be used to reduce the root mean …
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