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responds strongly to economic forces. The demand for engineers responds to the price of engineering services and demand … rational model, in which students use some forward-looking elements to forecast future demand for engineers, fits the data …
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We develop and test a model of the patenting and R&D decisions of an innovating firm whose researcher-employees sometime quit to join or start a rival. In our model, the innovating firm patents to protect itself from its workers. We show theoretically that the risk of a scientist's departure...
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This paper examines the incentive of unpaid programmers to contribute to open source software (OSS) projects in order to signal their talents. The analysis shows that if programmers contribute to OSS projects at all, then generically there are multiple equilibria. In these equilibria, an...
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