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 …

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 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 …

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 …

subsequent recession in Germany even though it was by far not the main driver. -- oil price shock ; VAR model ; micro data …In this paper we challenge the view that the oil price has lost its influence on economic activity after the mid-1980s … firm level analysis for which we exploit a unique microeconomic data set for Germany. Inspired by this finding, we …

We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study … cross-sectional and country-level differences. Using these data, we investigate whether micro and macro estimates differ in …, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that …

ifo Institute provides the data via two channels: On one side, researchers can work with the firm-level microdata of all … information about all supplementary questions since 2009. This overview can be used as a guide for future research projects. The … survey questions at the LMU-ifo Economics & Business Data Center (EBDC). On the other side, data sets of aggregated time …