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Matías Herrera Dappe (The World Bank)
Manufacture, Toulouse, France, 14–15 mars 2013
Ridwan D. Rusli (University of Luxembourg)
Adam Storeygard (Tufts University)
Lika Ba (EHESS)
Julia Bird (Toulouse School of Economics)
Alex Moore (LSE & The World Bank)
Jean-Jacques Dethier (World Bank)
Catherine Bobtcheff, Jérôme Bolte et Thomas Mariotti
n° 13-377, février 2013, révision septembre 2015
We model academic competition as a game in which researchers ¯ght for priority. Researchers privately experience breakthroughs and decide how long to let their ideas mature before making them public, thereby establishing priority. In a two-researcher, symmetric environment, the resulting preemption...
Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, Paul Dudley et Frank Rodriguez
n° 13-378, février 2013
Pascal Lavergne
n° 13-379, février 2013
In empirical research, one commonly aims to obtain evidence in favor of re- strictions on parameters, appearing as an economic hypothesis, a consequence of economic theory, or an econometric modeling assumption. I propose a new theoret- ical framework based on the Kullback-Leibler information to...
