divide the aggregate R&D stock by the business, government and education sectors and examine the impact on Total Factor …

research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German … academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the … research grants. We then go on to investigate the persistence of individual productivity. The Persistence issue is of special …

We study ex post outsourcing of production in an imperfectly discriminating contest, interpreted here as a research …

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 … research performance. We find evidence of positive incentive and status effects that raise both productivity and citation …

This paper discusses rising enrolment rates, access, governance, underperformance in research and teaching, lack of … internationalisation, private returns to education and the funding problems of European universities. Our proposals for reform are based on …, researchers and teachers and open up national funding schemes. The EU should take more initiatives to fund research through the …