research over time. A dynamic model considers the incentives of researchers to focus on empirical versus theoretical papers. It … yields the main characteristics of the path-changing of economics research, from theoretical-intensive to empirical … is a saddle point. This suggests that the current trend of increasing empirical research is unlikely to last. …

of research. In line with the model’s prediction, further results show that the decrease in publications is largest for … software patents in the U.S. on the publications of university researchers in the field of computer science. Difference …-in-difference estimations reveal that software scientists at U.S. universities produced fewer publications (both in terms of quantity and …

products, used in the secondary and tertiary industrial sectors. The second part of the article defines the behavioral research … biomass in the framework of the economic model of transition to the bioeconomy. The conclusions of our research are in line …

This papers studies the effects on service quality and consumer surplus of a minimum price which is fixed by a … maximize consumer surplus only if consumers demand the highest possible average quality. If consumers demand services of lesser … quality, the association?s price will be too high if measured by consumer surplus. Moreover we show that a de-regulated market …

rational. Art directors set performance quality according to their aspiration levels. While taking into account the spatial …

Hotelling framework, this paper analyses the effect of different objectives of the hospitals on quality, profits, and overall …

If a product has two dimensions of quality, one observable and one not, a firm can use observable quality as a signal … of unobservable quality. The correlation between consumers' valuation of high quality in each dimension is a key … determinant of the feasibility of such signaling. A firm may use price alone as a signal, or price and quality together. Both …