government grants. We argue that there is no single best mechanism for supporting research. Rather, mechanisms can only be … an intramural activity to largely a grant process. Finally, we observe that much research is supported by a hybrid system …

We conduct the first empirical test of the knowledge burden hypothesis, one of several theories advanced to explain … increasing team sizes in science. For identification, we exploit the collapse of the USSR as an exogenous shock to the knowledge … frontier causing a sudden release of previously hidden research. We report evidence that team size increased disproportionately …

The rate of regional growth of new knowledge in the field of nanotechnology, as measured by counts of articles and … stocks of recorded knowledge in all scientific fields, and the extent to which tacit knowledge in all fields flows between … patenting. The data provide further support for the cumulative advantage model of knowledge production, and for ongoing efforts …

This paper develops a transparent, simplified version of Carnehl and Schneider (2025)'s model of knowledge creation …'s emphasis on "moonshots," our analysis demonstrates that expanding knowledge and then deepening it (the moonshot approach) is …-best arguments involving research costs and dynamic externalities, not on direct welfare considerations. Second, we identify a novel …

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 …

Elite economics PhD programs aim to train graduate students for a lifetime of academic research. This paper asks how … advising affects graduate students' post-PhD research productivity. Advising is highly concentrated: at the eight highly …'s own research output and aspects of the advising relationship like coauthoring and research field affinity that might …

Using dissertation research topics found in the EconLit database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify … author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find …