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Heterogeneity, Stratification and Growth
Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
particular when comparing local and national funding of education, which correspond to special cases of segregation and …
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Education, Income Distribution, and Growth: The Local Connection
Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
emerge. First, minor differences in education technologies, preferences, or wealth, can lead to a high degree of … inequality in education and income more persistent across generations. Whether the same is true of inequality in total wealth … richer communities; thus average academic performance and income growth both fall. Yet it may still be possible for education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661649
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Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of labor market competition and skill-biased technical change on the structure of compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on...
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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...
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R&D Cooperation and Spillovers: Some Empirical Evidence
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Our results on the relationship between R&D spillovers and cooperation in R&D suggest that it is necessary to distinguish different aspects of external information flows. We construct firm-specific measures of incoming spillovers and appropriability from survey data on Belgian manufacturing...
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Complementarity in the Innovation Strategy: Internal R&D, External Technology Acquisition and Cooperation
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order to innovate successfully, the firm will combine different innovation activities. In addition to doing own research and development, firms typically are engaged in the acquisition...
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Heterogeneity in R&D Cooperation Strategies
Belderbos, Rene; Carree, Martin A; Diederen, Bert; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We explore heterogeneities in the determinants of innovating firms’ decisions to engage in R&D cooperation, differentiating between three types of cooperation partners: suppliers and customers (vertical cooperation), competitors (horizontal cooperation), and universities and research...
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Endogenizing Know-How Flows Through the Nature of R&D Investments
Cassiman, Bruno; Pérez-Castrillo, J David; Veugelers, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
In this Paper we carefully link knowledge flows to and from a firm’s innovation process with this firm’s investment decisions. Three types of investments are considered: investments in applied research, investments in basic research, and investments in intellectual property protection. Only...
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Top Research Productivity and its Persistence
Kelchtermans, Stijn; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The paper contributes to the debate on cumulative advantage effects in academic research by examining top performance in research and its persistence over time, using a panel dataset comprising the publications of biomedical and exact scientists at the KU Leuven in the period 1992-2001. We study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136709
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R&D Cooperation Between Firms and Universities: Some Empirical Evidence from Belgian Manufacturing
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper presents an econometric analysis of firm and industry characteristics conducive to cooperation with universities, using Community Innovation Survey data for Belgium. We find that large firms are more likely to have cooperative agreements with universities. These agreements are formed...
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