exert a statistically significant impact on project quality. -- corporate taxation ; research and development ; micro data …This paper examines the impact of tax incentives on corporate research and development (R&D) activity. Traditionally, R … taxation also distorts the quality of R&D projects, i.e. their innovativeness and revenue potential. Using rich data on …

We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can … possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … the RePEc Author Service. We rank the authors and research institutions according to their contribution to the aggregate …

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 …

We assess empirically the micro-foundations of producers' sticky pricing behaviour. The intertemporal profit function …

of Economic Research web site …We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003 …-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files differ by as much as 15% from counts in published data tables. Moreover, an …

durations found in the micro-data to generalized Taylor and Calvo models of time-dependent pricing. We illustrate the approach … with the UK micro CPI data for 2006-2009, and employ the pricing models in a simple macromodel. We find that the …

This paper presents a micro data approach to the identification of credit crunches. Using a survey among German firms … panel-data models …