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America, Jump-Started: World War II R&D and the Takeoff of the US Innovation System
During World War II, the US government’s Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) supported one of the largest public investments in applied R&D in US history. Using data on all OSRD-funded invention, we show this shock had a formative impact
D. Gross, B. Sampat
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COVID-19 as External Enabler of entrepreneurship practice and research
For decades, entrepreneurship and strategy research has been dominated by agent-centric and inward-looking theoretical perspectives. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the limits of this stance, as its influence on business has been both enormous
P. Davidsson +2 more
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VarR controls colonization and virulence in the marine macroalgal pathogen Nautella italica R11
There is increasing evidence to suggest that macroalgae (seaweeds) are susceptible to infectious disease. However, to date, little is known about the mechanisms that facilitate the colonization and virulence of microbial seaweed pathogens.
Melissa R. Gardiner +7 more
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Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia
This paper studies the long-run economic impact of dismissing city councils infiltrated by organized crime. Applying a matched difference-in-differences design to the universe of Italian social security records, we find that city council dismissals (CCDs)
Alessandra Fenizia, Raffaele Saggio
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Does economic activity move away from areas that are at high risk of recurring shocks? We examine this question in the context of floods, which displaced more than 650 million people worldwide in the last 35 years.
Adriana Kocornik-Mina +3 more
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Uneven domestic tourism demand in times of pandemic
This study investigates the short-run impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the number of domestic overnight stays at the regional level in the summer season 2020.
M. Falk, Eva Hagsten, Xiang Lin
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Firm Sorting and Agglomeration
To account for the uneven distribution of economic activity in space, I propose a theory of the location choices of heterogeneous firms in a variety of sectors across cities.
C. Gaubert
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Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico's Coastline
Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican microdata with a quantitative spatial equilibrium model and a new empirical strategy to study the long-term economic consequences of ...
Benjamin Faber, C. Gaubert
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Social interactions may explain the large variance in criminal activity across neighborhoods and time. We present direct evidence of social spillovers in crime using random variation in neighborhood residence along opposite sides of a newly drawn school ...
Stephen B. Billings +2 more
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The aim of the paper is to shed light on the role played by regional knowledge bases in Industry 3.0 in fostering new technologies in Industry 4.0 in European regions (NUTS3) over the period 1991-2015.
Matteo Laffi, R. Boschma
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