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Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – an Experimental Study

Grözinger, Nicola - 2020

In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...

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Did Cheaper Flights Change the Direction of Science?

Catalini, Christian - 2016

We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine-grained, scientist-level dataset within chemistry (1991-2012), we find that after Southwest Airlines enters a new route, scientific collaboration increases by 50%, an effect that is...

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Financial Constraints and Innovation : Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements …

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Innovation, Inequality and a Golden Rule for Growth in an Economy with Cobb-Douglas Function and an R&D Sector

Welfens, Paul J.J. - 2015

capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …

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Teamwork, Leadership and Gender

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022

We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader. About 430 students from an Italian University took an intermediate exam that was partly evaluated on the basis of teamwork. Students were randomly matched in teams of three and...

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Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?

Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2011

With fortuitously timed data collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria, we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary impact...

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Innovation and the Labor Market : Theory, Evidence and Challenges

Corrocher, Nicoletta; Moschella, Daniele; Staccioli, Jacopo - 2023

This paper deals with the complex relationship between innovation and the labor market, analyzing the impact of new …

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European Innovation Dynamics and Us Economic Impact : Theory and Empirical Analysis

Welfens, Paul J.J. - 2015

can offer a broad analysis of product innovation dynamics in Europe which should be the basis for not only better supply … communication in relation to product innovation dynamics. Moreover, the approach provides new important arguments in favor of the … TTIP negotiations between the US and the EU and it suggests a broader analytical link between trade, FDI, innovation …

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Growth, Development, and Technological Change

Grossmann, Volker - 2007

structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for …

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Skill Complementarity in Production Technology : New Empirical Evidence and Implications

Stoyanov, Andrey - 2019

Matched worker-firm data from Danish manufacturing reveal that 1) industries differ in within-firm worker skill dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher average skill dispersion. We argue that these patterns...

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