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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 …
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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 …
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signaling research talent to outsiders. Awards should therefore be taken seriously as a means of motivating research that may …
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, 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 …
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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 …
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upward. This note calls for a research agenda to estimate and decompose innovations into their creative and destructive …
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reallocation of labor from production and research towards the public sector. …
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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
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This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost-efficient development and deployment of eco-innovations (innovations that result in a reduction of environmental impact). To that end we discuss what standards are, how the process of...
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The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the...
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