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scientific productivity shifted scientist rewards and behavior on the margin toward incremental science and away from exploratory … decreased, science stagnated. We also explore ways to broaden how scientific productivity is measured and rewarded, involving …
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effect of spillovers on research productivity of firms exceeds the structural effect because it includes an active learning …
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manufacturing industries. The estimated elasticities of productivity with respect to R&D capital are significant and plausible, both …
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characteristics. The results suggest that institutional differences are important determinants of total factor productivity and that …
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In this paper I evaluate the contribution of R&D investments to productivity growth. The basis for the analysis are the … externalities. The resulting contribution of R&D to productivity growth in the US is smaller than three to five tenths of one …
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research productivity implies a substantial return to public investments in basic research …
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that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects domestic productivity via imports is probably incorrect. We provide …
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Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of … total factor productivity of its trade partners. Following these theoretical developments we estimate the effects of a … country's R&D capital stock and the R&D capital stocks of its trade partners on the country's total factor productivity. We …
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We estimate the impact of participating in the NZ Marsden Fund on research output trajectories, by comparing the subsequent performance of funded researchers to those who submitted proposals but were not funded. We control for selection bias using the evaluations of the proposals generated by...
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Replication is a critical component of scientific credibility as it increases our confidence in the reliability of the knowledge generated by original research. Yet, replication is the exception rather than the rule in economics. In this paper, we examine why replication is so rare and propose...
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