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How Research Affects Policy : Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities

Hjort, Jonas - 2019

This paper investigates if research findings change political leaders' beliefs and cause policy change. Collaborating with the National Confederation of Municipalities in Brazil, we work with 2,150 municipalities and the mayors who control their policies. We use experiments to measure mayors'...

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Uncertainty-Induced Reallocations and Growth

Bansal, Ravi - 2019

Focusing on both micro and aggregate U.S. data, we show the existence of a significant link between aggregate uncertainty and reallocation of resources away from R&D-intensive capital. This link is important because a decrease in the aggregate share of R&D-oriented capital forecasts lower...

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Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies

Athey, Susan - 2018

As technology platforms have created new markets and new ways of acquiring information, economists have come to play an increasingly central role in tech companies - tackling problems such as platform design, strategy, pricing, and policy. Over the past five years, hundreds of PhD economists...

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Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D

Babina, Tania - 2018

This paper studies how corporate research and development (R&D) investment affects labor mobility. We use employer-employee matched data in ordinary least squares and instrumental variables analyses to assess four hypotheses. R&D has no effect on worker retention, exit from employment, or...

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Does Gender Matter for Promotion in Science? Evidence from Physicists in France

Mairesse, Jacques - 2020

In this study, we investigate what are the factors of the promotion of female and male scientists at the French Institute of Physics (INP) at CNRS, one of the largest European public research organizations. We construct a long panel of INP physicists combining various data sources on their...

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The Role of Assets In Place : Loss of Market Exclusivity and Investment

Higgins, Matthew J. - 2020

We utilize a novel identification strategy to analyze the impact of assets in place on firms' decisions for future projects. We exploit the context in the pharmaceutical industry, where the loss of market exclusivity for a branded drug can be used to separate the impact of cash flows generated...

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Inventing the Endless Frontier : The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-war Innovation

Gross, Daniel P. - 2020

During World War II, the U.S. government launched an unprecedented effort to mobilize science for war: the newly-established Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) entered thousands of R&D contracts with industrial and academic contractors, spending one to two orders of magnitude...

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From Imitation to Innovation : Where Is all that Chinese R&D Going?

König, Michael - 2020

two strategies toward that end: imitation and innovation. The theory bears predictions about the evolution of the …

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Housing

Kung, Edward - 2020

In this chapter, I discuss innovation and entrepreneurship in residential real estate and construction (housing). Based … major innovation trends in housing: the growth of the internet as a tool for housing search, and the development of home … comparison to residential real estate, there appears to have been less recent innovation in residential construction. In many …

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Private and Social Returns to R&D : Drug Development and Demographics

Benmelech, Efraim; Eberly, Janice C.; Krieger, Joshua L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Investment in intangible capital--in particular, research and development--increased dramatically since the 1990s. However, productivity growth remains sluggish in recent years. One potential reason is that a significant share of the increase in intangible investment is geared toward consumer...

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