research performance. We find evidence of positive incentive and status effects that raise both productivity and citation …Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This …’ subsequent research activity and status compared to a synthetic control group of non-recipient scholars with similar previous …

This paper discusses rising enrolment rates, access, governance, underperformance in research and teaching, lack of …, researchers and teachers and open up national funding schemes. The EU should take more initiatives to fund research through the …

signaling research talent to outsiders. Awards should therefore be taken seriously as a means of motivating research that may …

, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern research. Academia, in a broader sense understood as “the locus of seeking …

We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The …

results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …

Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the … real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample … argue that changes in trade costs over time may affect the impact of productivity on the real exchange rate over time. We …

evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …

in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and … estimated negative impact of wrongful dismissal laws in the US on productivity and the positive effect on the number of …