' Thou shalt not work alone ': Individual Productivity in Research and Co-authorship in economics
| Autor: | Besancenot, Damien, Huynh, Kim, Serranito, Francisco |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord (CEPN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC)-Université Paris 13 (UP13), Laboratoire d'Économie Moderne (LEM), Université Panthéon-Assas (UP2), Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orleans (LEO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Tours-Université d'Orléans (UO), Université Paris 13 (UP13)-Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orleans [UMR7322] (LEO), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université de Tours (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
JEL: A - General Economics and Teaching/A.A1 - General Economics/A.A1.A14 - Sociology of Economics matching matching researchers' strategy Co-authorship JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C4 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics/C.C4.C46 - Specific Distributions • Specific Statistics JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory/C.C7.C78 - Bargaining Theory • Matching Theory Co-authorship researchers' strategy [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance |
| Popis: | This paper focuses on the properties of the matching process which leads to scientific collaboration. In a first step, it proposes a simple theoretical model to describe the intertemporal choice of researchers facing successive opportunities of co-authoring papers. In a second part, the paper empirically assesses the properties of the model. The main empirical result is that the number and the productivity of a researcher's co-authors reflect the productivity of this researcher. This result is consistent with the assumption that co-authorship is motivated by a willingness to increase both the quality and the quantity of research output. As researchers with a lot of influent publications papers may create links with a large number of influential co-authors, co-authoring with highly productive academics appears as a signaling device of researchers' quality. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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