The challenge of mitigating climate change has focused recent attention on basic scientific research feeding into the …

We explore the determinants of research specialization across countries and its consequences for relative wages. Using … research regardless of trade barriers or research productivity. As long as trade barriers are not too high, faster diffusion … shifts research activity toward the country that does it better. This shift in research activity raises the relative wage …

Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of …

experiment based on the Obama administration's staggered introduction of open-access requirements for federally-funded research …

This paper investigates if research findings change political leaders' beliefs and cause policy change. Collaborating … their policies. We use experiments to measure mayors' demand for research information and their response to learning … research findings. In one experiment, we find that mayors and other municipal officials are willing to pay to learn the results …

maintain discretion over their research agenda and allow others to build on their discoveries. This paper examines the … granting of control rights to researchers. Within this framework, openness of upstream research does not simply encourage … higher levels of downstream exploitation. It also raises the incentives for additional upstream research by encouraging the …