journals' policies could substantially expedite peer review at little cost. More generally, price incentives, nudges, and … incentives significantly improve speed, especially in the week before the deadline. Cash payments do not crowd out intrinsic … motivation: after the cash treatment ends, referees who received cash incentives are no slower than those in the four …

economists on the patterns of their citations. We rely on a sample of 428 papers written by 16 well known economists who died …

Over the past decade there has been a decline in the fraction of papers in top economics journals written by economists …

Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this …

This paper explores the interaction between incentives, information, and organizational design. It argues that the … virtues: its ability to solve the problems of selection, incentives, and information gathering and aggregation which are the …

provision of incentives to corporate scientists, in an environment where (1) scientists engage in multiple activities when …-monetary incentives; and (4) firms compete on the product market. We show that both the degree of knowledge spillovers and of market … competition affect the incentives given to scientists, and these effects interact. First, high knowledge spillovers lead firms to …