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Does scientific progress affect culture? : a digital text analysis

Giorcelli, Michela; Lacetera, Nicola; Marinoni, Astrid - 2019

relation between two key factors of long-term economic growth - science and culture. Considering the evolution of these two …

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Bad science: retractions and media coverage

Alabrese, Eleonora - 2022

Flawed research can be harmful both within and outside of academia. Even when published research has been retracted and refuted by the scientific community, it may continue to be a source of misinformation. The media can play an important role in drawing broader attention to research, but may...

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Academics appreciate awards : a new aspect of incentives in research

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009

This paper analyzes awards as a means of motivation prevalent in the scientific community, but so far neglected in the economic literature on incentives, and discusses their relationship to monetary compensation. Awards are better suited than performance pay to reward scientific tasks, which are...

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Withering academia?

Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of "university" and inadequate organizational forms for modern...

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Superstar economists : coauthorship networks and research output

Hsieh, Chih-sheng; König, Michael D.; Liu, Xiaodong; … - 2018

institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …

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Science vs. profit in research : lessons from the human genome project

Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - 2001

This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...

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Technology shocks and aggregate fluctuations in an estimated hybrid RBC model

Malley, James R.; Woitek, Ulrich - 2009

technology shocks in explaining aggregate fluctuations. To this end we estimate the model's posterior density using Markov …

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Timing of technology adoption and product market competition

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakēs, Emmanuēl - 2009

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as …. When goods are differentiated enough, adoption occurs later than it is socially optimal. -- technology adoption …

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Heckscher-Ohlin theory when countries have different technologies

Fisher, Eric O'Neill - 2010

Rethinking the foundations of Heckscher-Ohlin theory when countries have different technologies, this paper shows how to make the proper adjustments for international productivity differences. The central tool is a factor conversion matrix that computes the local factor content of foreign...

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Business cycle effects of credit and technology shocks in a DSGE model with firm defaults

Pesaran, M. Hashem; Xu, TengTeng - 2011

This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle … different realizations of firm specific technology shocks, possibly leading to default by some firms. The paper advances a new … financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined …

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