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Emergence of Economic Institutions : Analysing the Third Role of Universities in Turku, Finland

Srinivas, Smita - 2013

How do universities become economic development institutions? The normative 'Third Role' in Europe refers to universities taking on explicit economic development mandates such as greater technology transfer, and commercial outputs, without providing much of a compass for institutional change. It...

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On How Can Higher Education Institutions Contribute, or Not, to the Success, or Not, of Public Policies of Social Cohesion

Caleiro, António - 2019

Public policies aimed at achieving an increased level of social cohesion were initially confronted with a problem associated with what would/should be understood as social cohesion. This problem has raised difficulties in its implementation and monitoring, which has been tried to reduce, for...

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Ranking Israel's Economists

Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

’s academic economists and economics departments, ranking them according to the number of citations on their work. It also … provides a vista into one of the primary reasons given by junior Israeli economists for an unparalleled brain drain from the …

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Social Ties in Academia : A Friend is a Treasure

Colussi, Tommaso - 2015

This paper employs a unique dataset on articles, authors and editors of the top general interest journals in economics … to investigate the role of social connections in the publication process. Ties between editors and authors are identified … increase in their publication outcomes when this editor is in charge of a journal. The analysis of articles' citations suggests …

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Financing Education and Development in Eritrea - Some Implications

Rena, Ravinder - 2015

Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving increased attention from policy makers and scholars in different parts of the world particularly in developing countries. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard...

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Designing dynamic research contests

Benkert, Jean-Michel; Letina, Igor - 2016

This paper considers the optimal design of dynamic research contests when the buyer can set time-dependent prizes. We derive the buyer-optimal contest and show that it entails an increasing prize schedule. Remarkably, this allows the buyer to implement a global stopping rule. In particular, the...

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Performance responses to competition across skill-levels in rank order tournaments : field evidence and implications for tournament design

Boudreau, Kevin J.; Helfat, Constance E.; Lakhani, Karim R. - 2013

Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual data on 2,775 contestants in 755 software algorithm development contests with random assignment. The performance response to added contestants varies non-monotonically across contestants of...

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The Economics of Ronald Coase

Veljanovski, Cento - 2020

Ronald Coase (1910-2013), who sadly died at the remarkable age of 102, made significant contributions to economics based on common sense and the detailed study of his topics. Coase was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991 “for his discovery and clarification of the significance...

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Top5itis

Serrano, Roberto - 2018

academic economists with the so-called "top5 journals". …

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Lessons from the laureates

Breit, William; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2009

This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at … one planned in advance but one that evolved via the marketplace for ideas. -- Nobel economists ; economic thought …

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