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Peer effects in science: evidence from the dismissal of scientists in Nazi Germany

Waldinger, Fabian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper analyzes peer effects among university scientists. Specifically, it investigates whether the number of peers and their average quality affects the productivity of researchers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The usual endogeneity problems related to estimating peer effects are...

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Incentives and invention in universities

Lach, Saul; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Using data on U.S. universities, we show that universities that give higher royalty shares to faculty scientists generate greater license income, controlling for university size, academic quality, research funding and other factors. We use pre-sample data on university patenting to control for...

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Cooperatives vs. outside ownership

Hart, Oliver; Moore, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

We are concerned with the design of a constitution for a firm - an ex ante contract which assigns residual rights of control (and possibly residual income rights) without reference to the issue to be decided. We focus attention on two polar constitutions: non-profit cooperatives and outside...

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The economics of non-governmental organisations

Scott, Colin; Hopkins, R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to identify the organisational comparative advantage of NGOs, and to develop a model which explains the set of circumstances uder which they emerge and dominate other types of firms. It is argued that the potential superiority of NGOs derives from two features: (1)...

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Competition and incentives with motivated agents

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

A unifying theme in the literature on organizations such as public bureaucracies and private non-profits is the importance of missions, as opposed to profit, as an organizational goal. Such mission-oriented organizations are frequently staffed by motivated agents who subscribe to the mission....

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Eliciting and utilizing willingness to pay: evidence from field trials in Northern Ghana

Fischer, Gregory; Berry, James; Guiteras, Raymond - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

We utilize the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (1964) mechanism to estimate the willingness to pay for clean drinking water technology in northern Ghana. The BDM mechanism has attractive properties for empirical research, allowing us to directly estimate demand, compute heterogeneous treatment effects,...

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Incentives and invention in universities

Lach, Saul; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

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Patents and cumulative innovation: causal evidence from the courts

Galasso, Alberto; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Cumulative innovation is central to economic growth. Do patent rights facilitate or impede such follow-on innovation …? This paper studies the effect of removing patent protection through court invalidation on the subsequent research related … to the focal patent, as measured by later citations. We exploit random allocation of judges at the U.S. Court of Appeal …

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Fast-tracking 'green' patent applications: an empirical analysis

Dechezlepretre, Antoine - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper presents the first empirical analysis of programmes to fast-track ‘green’ patent applications in place in … seven Intellectual Property offices around the world. We find that only a small share of green patent applications (between … 1% and 20% depending on the patent office) request accelerated examination, suggesting that patent applicants have a …

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Strategic patenting and software innovation

Noel, Michael; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

software industry. We focus on two key aspects: patent portfolio size which affects bargaining power in patent disputes, and … the fragmentation of patent rights (.patent thickets.) which increases the transaction costs of enforcement. We develop a …

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