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With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends : Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship

Lerner, Josh - 2014

To what extent do peers affect our occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such influences, however, are hard to identify empirically. We exploit the assignment of students...

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Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?

Kim, E. Han - 2006

We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been …

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Citations in Economics : Measurement, Uses and Impacts

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021

I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics that can be constructed from them …-specialties in economics and present evidence on the history and heterogeneity of those journals’ impacts and the marginal citation … universities to rank economics departments by various measures and to demonstrate the importance of intra- and inter …

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Power and Publications in Chinese Academia

Jia, Ruixue - 2019

economics schools in Chinese universities. We find that (i) deanship increases an individual's publication by 0.7 articles per …

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Innovation and Climate Policy

Popp, David - 2012

Reducing emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change will require dramatic changes in the way that energy is produced and consumed. The cost of technological changes such as alternative energy sources and improved energy efficiency will play a large role in determining the...

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Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy

Atkeson, Andrew - 2011

We examine the quantitative impact of policy-induced changes in innovative investment by firms on growth in aggregate productivity and output in a model that nests several of the canonical models in the literature. We isolate two statistics, the impact elasticity of aggregate productivity growth...

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Life and Growth

Jones, Charles I. - 2011

Some technologies save lives -- new vaccines, new surgical techniques, safer highways. Others threaten lives -- pollution, nuclear accidents, global warming, the rapid global transmission of disease, and bioengineered viruses. How is growth theory altered when technologies involve life and death...

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The Role of Technological Change in Green Growth

Popp, David - 2014

By reducing the costs of environmental protection, technological change is important for promoting green growth. This entails both the creation of new technologies and more widespread deployment of existing green technologies. This paper reviews the literature on environmentally friendly...

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Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms : Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program

Link, Albert - 2014

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of entrepreneurial firms. We fill this gap by examining a rich...

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Technology Variation vs. R&D Uncertainty : What Matters Most for Energy Patent Success?

Popp, David - 2014

R&D is an uncertain activity with highly skewed outcomes. Nonetheless, most recent empirical studies and modeling estimates of the potential of technological change focus on the average returns to research and development (R&D) for a composite technology and contain little or no information...

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