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received more than 500 citations. We document major shifts in the mode of contribution and in the importance of different sub …-fields: Theory loses out to empirical work, and micro and macro give way to growth and development in the 1990s. While we do not …
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A key input to inventive activity is human capital. Hence it is important to understand the monetary incentives of inventors. We estimate the effect of patented inventions on individual earnings by linking data on U.S. patents and their inventors to Finnish employer-employee data. Returns are...
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Using a data set of highly cited researchers in all fields of science, we show that the gap in scientific performance between Europe, especially continental Europe, and the USA is large. We model the number of highly cited researchers in a sample of countries as a function of physical and human...
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‘generality’, self-citations, etc. Many of these measures exhibit interesting differences across the six main technological … — about 3 million patents and 16 million citations — is now available on the NBER website. We discuss key issues that arise in … the use of patent citations data, and suggest ways of addressing them. In particular, significant changes over time in the …
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Modern growth theory puts invention on the center stage. Inventions are created by individuals, raising the question …
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We study daily money market mutual fund flows at the individual share class level during the crisis of September 2008. The empirical approach that we apply to this fine granularity of data brings new insights into the investor and portfolio holding characteristics that are conducive to run-risk...
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Based on the individual-level data of the PISA 2000 study, this Paper provides a detailed econometric analysis of the way that reading test scores are associated with individual and family background information, and with characteristics of the school and class of the 15 to 16 year old...
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The aim of this Paper is to improve our understanding of the empirical determinants of corporate growth by extending the literature to include a new group of variables related to FDI, namely the degree of foreign ownership and technology spillovers. Based on recent developments in the field, our...
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Cultural factors and especially common languages are well-known determinants of trade. By contrast, the knowledge of foreign languages was not explored in the literature so far. We combine traditional gravity models with data on fluency in the main languages used in EU and candidate countries....
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, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training …
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