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Are Elite Universities Losing their Competitive Edge?

Han Kim, E; Morse, Adair; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect...

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Heterogeneous Peer Effects in Education

Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We develop a network model looking at the role of different types of peers in education. The empirical salience of the model is tested using a very detailed longitudinal dataset of adolescent friendship networks. We find that there are strong and persistent peer effects in education but peers...

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Academic Achievements: Grades versus Duration

Brugiavini, Agar; Carraro, Carlo; Kovacic, Matija - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari … University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set … of independent variables contains information on students' personal characteristics, prior academic achievements, family …

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Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia

Checchi, Daniele; De Fraja, Gianni; Verzillo, Stefano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and closely inspired by the Italian academic market. In this model, the number of applicants, the number of new posts, and the relative importance of the determinants of promotion...

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Peer Effects, Risk Pooling, and Status Seeking: What Explains Gift Spending Escalation in Rural China?

Chen, Xi; Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

It has been widely documented that the poor spend a significant proportion of their income on gifts even at the expense of basic consumption. We test three competing explanations of this phenomenon--peer effect, status concern, and risk pooling--based on a census-type primary household survey in...

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The Missing Transfers: Estimating Mis-reporting in Dyadic Data

Comola, Margherita; Fafchamps, Marcel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Many studies have used self-reported dyadic data without exploiting the pattern of discordant answers. In this paper we propose a maximum likelihood estimator that deals with mis-reporting in a systematic way. We illustrate the methodology using dyadic data on inter-household transfers from the...

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Bank Networks: Contagion, Systemic Risk and Prudential Policy

Aldasoro, Iñaki; Delli Gatti, Domenico; Faia, Ester - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We present a network model of the interbank market in which optimizing risk averse banks lend to each other and invest in non-liquid assets. Market clearing takes place through a tâtonnement process which yields the equilibrium price, while traded quantities are determined by means of a...

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Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance

Bernard, Andrew B.; Moxnes, Andreas; Saito, Yukiko U. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper examines the importance of buyer-supplier relationships, geography and the structure of the production network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to...

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Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency

Gautier, Pieter A; Holzner, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise if workers do not know where other workers apply to (this affects network creation) and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider (this affects network clearing). We show that those frictions and the...

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Professional Network and Career Coevolution

Berardi, Nicoletta; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper examines how networks of professional contacts contribute to the development of the careers of executives of European and US companies. We build a dynamic model of career progression in which career moves both depend upon existing networks and contribute to the development of future...

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