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We study what makes a research grant application successful in terms of ability, type of research, experience, and demographics of the applicants. But our main objective is to investigate whether public funding organizations support the teams that are most likely to undertake transformative or...
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We provide a theoretical framework to contribute to the current debate regarding the tendency of pharmaceutical companies to direct their R&D toward marketing products that are "follow-on" drugs of already existing drugs, rather than toward the development of breakthrough drugs. We construct a...
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Using the multiple indicator-multiple cause (MIMIC) approach, this paper generates a novel global database by estimating the size of the shadow economy for 157 countries over 1991 to 2017. The results suggest that the OECD countries are by far the lowest with values below 20% of off official GDP...
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We administer a newly-designed survey to a large panel of retail investors who have substantial wealth invested in … financial markets. The survey elicits beliefs that are crucial for macroeconomics and finance, and matches respondents with …
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to pervade the economic and social life rendering strategic interactions with artificial agents more and more common. At the same time, experimental economic research has increasingly employed computer players to advance our understanding of strategic...
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A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise … randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether incentivizing belief accuracy affects stated … provision does not reduce bias in our survey-based belief measures. …
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announcements, (ii) a new survey that we conduct of individual Blue Chip forecasters, and (iii) regressions that include the …
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empirical basis for more comprehensive theories of decision-making. We elicit 21 behaviors using an incentivized survey on a …
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not use the internet. We run a large-scale opinion survey with (1) onliners in web mode, (2) offliners in face … sampling differences. In our setting, re-weighting online-survey observations appears a pragmatic solution when aiming at …
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survey data to analyse the impact of the reform on German firms. Many firms with substantial US revenues or production … expand in both countries. We subsequently extend our analysis to the global level using worldwide survey data. The results …
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