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We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can … the RePEc Author Service. We rank the authors and research institutions according to their contribution to the aggregate … research output and thus provide a novel ranking measure that explicitly takes into account the spillover effect generated in …
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In 2017 the Italian government established the Fund to Finance Basic Research Activities - FFABR - with the purpose of … assigning a 3,000 euros research grant to the most productive applicants among eligible assistant and associate professors. We …
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In 2017, the federal government invested over $40 billion on university research; another $16 billion came from private … scientists in finding other sources of funding. Understanding the effect of such different funding streams on research outputs is … structure of research and in terms of research outputs. For example, federal funding is often intended to affect the structure …
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Federal research funding to universities is often based on a desire to stimulate innovation - so that they spend … taxpayer money for "something". There is growing understanding of the need to change the structure of research funding in order … the next generation of scientists and inventors - teams funded by research grants - leads to innovative activity as …
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We review and condense the body of literature on the economic returns of public R&D on private R&D and find that: (i) private returns to R&D appear to be large and larger than the returns to alternative investments; (ii) private R&D and R&D subsidies are positively correlated and there is no...
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We analyze the effects of a large place-based policy, subsidizing up to 50% of investment costs of manufacturing firms in East Germany after reunification. We show that a 1-percentage-point decrease in the subsidy rate leads to a 1% decrease in manufacturing employment. We document important...
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Current literature on the impact assessment of government innovation subsidies is mainly empirical driven and lacks an overarching theoretical model to explain the conditions under which government subsidies create positive additionalities on private R&D investment. In this paper, we present a...
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. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy to be extended to other “research … academic research councils, universities, and government undertaken work on civil and military R&D. To evaluate these questions … spillovers from public R&D spend on research councils, and (c) no evidence of market sector spillovers from public spending on …
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simple; in the other treatment it is highly complex. The payoff-maximizing effort level and the incentives around this … to ignore larger changes in incentives. Our results suggest that the effect of a newly introduced tax will be attenuated …
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in the UK. We find that the participation of low education men is somewhat more responsive to incentives than previously …
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