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Superstar Economists: Coauthorship Networks and Research Output
Hsieh, Chih-Sheng; König, Michael D.; Liu, Xiaodong; … - 2018
We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors but also to researchers indirectly linked to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984476
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The production of PhDs in the United States and Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Larsen, Nicholas; Pieper, Paul - 2010
This paper is concerned with the production of PhDs in the United States and Canada in the post-WW II period, overall and by gender and major discipline. The effects of the explanatory variables lagged six years are consistent with the model. Military conscription with educational exemptions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278506
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Rising Stars
Battistin, Erich; Ovidi, Marco - 2017
We use the UK's 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study which attributes characterize a top-scoring (four-star) publication in Economics and Econometrics. We frame the analysis as a classification problem and, using information in official documents, derive conditions to infer the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816470
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The Production of PhDs in the United States and Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Larsen, Nicholas; Pieper, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper is concerned with the production of PhDs in the United States and Canada in the post-WW II period, overall and by gender and major discipline. The effects of the explanatory variables lagged six years are consistent with the model. Military conscription with educational exemptions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764583
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An examination of the reliability of prestigious scholarly journals: evidence and implications for decision-makers
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2006
In universities all over the world, hiring and promotion committees regularly hear the argument: this is important work because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X. Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in the multi-billion pound Research Assessment Exercise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267414
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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262337
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Banks and innovation: microeconometric evidence on Italian firms
Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - 2006
set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267494
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The catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs
Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - 2007
innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268495
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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2008
into account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … are important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on … innovation. There is partial support for the hypothesis that firms in a more pro-business environment invest more in innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268909
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How much does immigration boost innovation?
Hunt, Jennifer; Gauthier-Loiselle, Marjolaine - 2009
We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual …
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