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country – to China's catching up in global science to become a world leader in research publications and citations. Using a … author. Through those pathways, diaspora research contributed to China’s 2000-2015 catch-up in science and to global science …
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the basicness of research underlying an invention can be characterized by the nature of the previous patents cited by an … invention; that the basicness of research outcomes relates to the subsequent patents that cite an invention; and that the …, and find that many of the measures do conform to our a priori belief that university research and research outcomes are …
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and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), reviews and comments on the state of corporate governance research … governance project. Each of the papers represents state-of-the-art research in an important area of corporate governance research …
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Might the dollar eventually follow the precedent of the pound and cede its status as leading international reserve currency? Unlike ten years ago, there now exists a credible competitor: the euro. This paper econometrically estimates determinants of the shares of major currencies in the reserve...
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Intelligently allocating research effort and funds requires deciding whether to build on recent advances or on more … established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the … invention process promotes technological progress. The gains from pursuing such innovative research paths may, however, be very …
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We develop a model of induced innovation where research effort is a function of the death rate, and thus the potential … predictions. First, initial death rates and subsequent research effort should be positively correlated. Second, research effort …
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We investigate rewards to R&D in a model where substitute ideas for innovation arrive to random recipients at random times. By foregoing investment in a current idea, society as a whole preserves an option to invest in a better idea for the same market niche, but with delay. Because successive...
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We study favoritism via hometown ties, a common source of favor exchange in China, in fellow selection of the Chinese Academies of Sciences and Engineering. Hometown ties to fellow selection committee members increase candidates' election probability by 39 percent, coming entirely from the...
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A well-developed theoretical literature — dating back at least to Nordhaus (1969) — has analyzed optimal patent policy design. We re-present the core trade-off of the Nordhaus model and highlight an empirical question which emerges from the Nordhaus framework as a key input into optimal...
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Research productivity depends on the ability to discern whether an idea is promising, and a willingness to abandon the …-prize. Subsidies have a larger impact on research output, though prizes perform better when accounting for researchers' opportunity …
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