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    Do Accelerators Also Benefit Entrepreneurs' Future Careers?

    Accounting for the Lab: Determinants of Grant Funding and Lab Return on Assets (LabROA)

    Social Incentives Make it Difficult to Coordinate and Normalise Bribery inside Organisations

    Why is Global Patent Litigation Geographically Concentrated?

    Selection Regimes and Selection Errors: a Multi-method Study

    The Effect of Minimum Wage Changes on Scientific Production

    Science beyond the Nation-State: The Network of Scholarly Communications

    The Evaluation of Founder Failure and Success by Hiring Firms: A Field Experiment

    The Virtuous Cycle of Innovation and Capital

    Managing the Promise-rist Tension: Recrafting Narratives of Innovation after Catastrophic Failure

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    March 19, 2023

    Do Accelerators Also Benefit Entrepreneurs' Future Careers?

    Abstract: Accelerators, such as Techstars, Startup Chile, and Y Combinator, are increasingly prevalent parts of entrepreneurial landscapes. These fixed-length entrepreneurial development programs aid cohorts of startups by providing mentorship, networks, and signals of endorsement. Accelerators can have substantial positive effects on startup development and also shorten the time to shutting-down. However, since prior work has focused on startup-level outcomes such as financing, employee growth and customer traction, less is known about individual-level outcomes.
    December 17, 2022

    Accounting for the Lab: Determinants of Grant Funding and Lab Return on Assets (LabROA)

    Abstract: The objective allocation of governmental funds is central to the vitality of the scientific enterprise. In this paper, I suggest that there exists a misalignment between currently used measures to assess a lab’s prior publication history (e.g., journal-impact-factor weighted publication count or JIFCount) and standard practice in financial accounting (e.g., Return on Assets). To examine this disparity, I develop a novel measure I call LabROA that captures the conversion of labor inputs into scientific output, and I operationalize this measure using data from MIT Biology.
    November 25, 2022

    Social Incentives Make it Difficult to Coordinate and Normalise Bribery inside Organisations

    Abstract: Considering the significant policy losses against bribery, it can appear as if organisational actors collectively conspire to keep bribe markets alive. Far from it, however, I will talk about how social incentives discourage organisational actors from sharing information about their bribe-taking exploits with each other. This tendency against disclosure makes it costly and difficult for them to coordinate on bribery. As a result, bribery is more likely to be unevenly distributed, uncoordinated, and no where near normalised inside organisations.
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