La recherche publique agronomique au Cameroun, comme dans d'autres pays subit une baisse de ses financments structurels despuis une quizaine d'années. Pour combler cette perte de ressources, les chercheurs se tournent de plus en, plus vers les entreprises privées. Cet article interroge les...

We study, at the firm level, whether the incremental R&D tax credit increases the private funding of R&D. In order to answer this question, we use the yearly surveys of the Ministry of Research over the period 1993-2003, as well as the corresponding firm-level tax files. The main issue is...

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay schemes and relative performance feedback policies on employee effort. We explore three feedback rules: No feedback on relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated feedback....