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This paper studies how the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) regime in destination countries influences the way multinationals structure the international organization of their production. In particular, we explore how multinationals divide tasks of different complexities across countries with...
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Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of...
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This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal articles we show that the average number of authors per article has increased over the last years. This process is likely to be continued in the future. In a regression analysis...
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This paper uses a gravity framework to investigate the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders in knowledge spillovers. Drawing on the NBER Patent Citations Database, we examine patent citations data at metropolitan level within the U.S. and the 38 largest patent-cited...
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This paper presents a simple model of airline schedule competition that circumvents the complexities of the spatial …
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an airline's total fuel usage to seven variables: the available ton miles of capacity (passengers plus freight and mail …) provided by the airline; the average seat capacity of its aircraft, average stage length (flight distance); average load factor … (measured by weight); the average vintage (construction year) of its aircraft; the percentage of the airline's flights that are …
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airline alliances. We show that the gains from economies of density due to higher interline traffic under the alliance … airline alliance subject to a carve-out …
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variables approach, the paper estimates flight-frequency reaction functions, which relate an airline's frequency on a route to …
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This paper offers the first formal economic analysis of carve-outs under airline antitrust im- munity. Carve-outs are …
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This paper provides theory and evidence on airline bag fees, offering insights into a real-world case of product … unbundling. The theory predicts that an airline’s fares should fall when it introduces a bag fee, but that the full trip price …
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