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We use textual analysis of high-dimensional data from patent documents to create new indicators of technological innovation. We identify significant patents based on textual similarity of a given patent to previous and subsequent work: these patents are distinct from previous work but are...
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in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U ….S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a powerful influence on tenure decisions and rates of transition to …
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We study how citation patterns differ between journal tiers in economics. Concretely, we analyze citations patterns of … more than 6,000 economics research articles published in top five, second tier, and top field economics journals between … field of economics research (e.g. this ratio is the lowest for econometric methods papers) and with articles' impact (e …
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clients and peers? Is economics scholarship uniquely insular? We address these questions by quantifying interactions between … economics and other disciplines. Changes in the impact of economic scholarship are measured here by the way other disciplines … cite us. We document a clear rise in the extramural influence of economic research, while also showing that economics is …
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We study editorial decision-making using anonymized submission data for four leading economics journals: the Journal of … the European Economics Association, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of … Economics and Statistics. We match papers to the publication records of authors at the time of submission and to subsequent …
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We study how the organization of the state evolves over the process of development of a nation, using a new dataset on the internal organization of the U.S. federal bureaucracy over 1817-1905. First, we show a series of facts, describing how the size of the state, its presence across the...
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Formal rules within organizations are pervasive, but may be interpreted and implemented differently by actors within the organization, impacting organizational outcomes. We consider a delegation reform that changed formal rules within the environmental regulator in an Indian state, by giving...
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This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
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these confidence sets to draw inferences about uncertainty in the ranking of economics journals and universities by impact …
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How does the publication of patents affect innovation? We answer this question by exploiting a large-scale natural experiment--the passage of the American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA)--that accelerated the public disclosure of most U.S. patents by two years. We obtain causal...
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