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Author Country of Origin and Attention on Open Science Platforms : Evidence from COVID-19 Preprints
Fry, Caroline; MacGarvie, Megan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Online platforms such as preprint servers have become an important way to disseminate new scientific knowledge prior to peer review. However, little is known about how attention to preprints may vary across authors from different countries of origin, particularly relative to evaluation in...
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Cite Unseen : Theory and Evidence on the Effect of Open Access on Cites to Academic Articles Across the Quality Spectrum
McCabe, Mark J. - 2020
Our previous paper (McCabe and Snyder 2014) contained the provocative result that, despite a positive average effect, open access reduces cites to some articles, in particular those published in lower-tier journals. We propose a model in which open access leads more readers to acquire the full...
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Half a Century of Public Software Institutions : Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem
Schwarz, Michael - 2009
We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not been described in the literature: the...
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Open Access as a Crude Solution to a Hold-up Problem in the Two-Sided Market for Academic Journals
McCabe, Mark J. - 2016
(monopoly, Bertrand competition) and extensions (non-profit journals, bundling, hybrid pricing), using our theoretical findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456455
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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...
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Plata y Plomo : How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence
Pulejo, Massimo; Querubín Borrero, Pablo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Adequate wages are an important tool to shield public officials from special interests and corruption. But what is the equilibrium effect of higher wages in the presence of criminal pressure groups, who use both bribes and violence? By means of a regression discontinuity design, we show that an...
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Contract Form and Procurement Costs : The Impact of Compulsory Multiple Contractor Laws in Construction
Ashenfelter, Orley - 1997
general contractors in order to promote the appearance of competition. Contrasts of construction costs between buildings with …
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Getting the Price Right? : The Impact of Competitive Bidding in the Medicare Program
Ding, Hui; Duggan, Mark G.; Starc, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study Medicare's competitive bidding program (CBP) for durable medical equipment (DME). We exploit Medicare claims data to examine both prices and utilization, focusing on continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices to treat sleep apnea. We find that spending falls by 47.2% percent...
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Guaranteed Markets and Corporate Scientific Research
Belenzon, Sharon; Cioaca, Larisa C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Firms invest in scientific research to increase their chances of landing lucrative procurement contracts with the U.S. government. This is an important, but understudied channel through which the government encourages corporate research, particularly when other market mechanisms are...
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Tournament-Style Political Competition and Local Protectionism : Theory and Evidence from China
Fang, Hanming; Li, Ming; Wu, Zenan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We argue that inter-jurisdictional competition in a regionally decentralized authoritarian regime distorts local … presence of regional spillover and the incentive for political competition leads to biased resource allocations against the … political competition, they allocate less government procurement contracts to firms in the competing city; second, local firms …
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