When investing in research and development (R&D), institutions must decide whether to take a top-down approach … the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which …

of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …Given the recent efforts in several countries to reorganize the research institutional setting to improve research … standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research …

sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …

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preferences. We derive important implications for research on optimal taxation …

lessons have been learned that may guide future policy. We focus on Europe and USA, but introduce evidence from other …

Europe …

-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … market shocks. Based on fixed-effects regressions using regional panel data, we find that Europe's migratory response to … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes – i.e. an upper-bound estimate – up to …