There is increasing policy interest in the recruitment and integration of star scientists as a
mechanism to catalyse research productivity. We use rich data for three Small Open …

This paper contributes to the growing literature on the impact of connections to star scientists
on the productivity of academic scientists. The existing literature generally focuses on larger …

We investigate the impact of policies aimed at attracting foreign-based star scientists on the
internationalisation of host institutions. In particular, we examine the case of the Alexander …

This article studies the effect of return initiatives in rural regions of Germany on interregional
return migration. The initiatives aim to increase return migration by, amongst other things …

Using a distinctive sectoral dataset from Ireland, among the most attractive destinations of
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), over the period 2000 and 2018, we evaluate the role of …

Using a distinctive sectoral dataset from Ireland, among the most attractive destinations of
FDI, over the period 2000 and 2018, we evaluate the role of embodied and disembodied …

We link a new database of politically exposed persons with the complete register of firms
established in Mozambique since Independence. Focusing on the network of connections …

The study of factors influencing scientific knowledge production and the design of financial
incentives that may stimulate it have become increasingly relevant among scholars and …

This paper introduces an explicit matching estimator to mitigate biases inherent in
conventional methods when estimating the impacts of productivity spillovers through foreign …

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감소현상을 겪고 있으며, 이를 자연스러운 현상으로 받아들여야 한다는 '축소사회'에 관한 …