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publish the best article in an issue of a medium-quality journal like the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics than to …
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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 to do so; less is known about the effectiveness of...
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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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When investing in research and development (R&D), institutions must decide whether to take a top-down approach – soliciting a particular technology – or a bottom-up approach in which innovators suggest ideas. This paper examines a reform to the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation...
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in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U ….S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a powerful influence on tenure decisions and rates of transition to …
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method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics. Of 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles, the UK produced 10 …%, and the rest of Europe slightly more. Interestingly, more than a quarter of these elite UK articles came from outside the …
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the umpire and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior … cannot determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer … measures of salary discrimination that adjust for measured productivity may be flawed. We derive the magnitude of the bias …
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data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by …
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at three leading economics conferences over the 2006-2012 period. The results show a positive link between conference …
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Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …
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