Research Papers of Nicolas Carayol

 

The papers are part of my two main domains of interest: 1 Economics of science, and 2 Network Formation.

 


1 The Economics of Science

Theory

• Dominance relations and universities ranking, with Agénor Lahatte [paper], (Last Version: March 2009).

• An economic theory of academic competition: Dynamic incentives and endogenous cumulative advantages, [paper], (Last Version: Dec. 2005).

• Optimal Dynamic Incentives in the Academic Competition, [paper], (Last Version: Feb. 2006), Currently under revision.

• Les propriétés incitatives de l'effet Saint-Matthieu dans la compétition académique, [paper], published  in Revue Economique, 2006.

Sequential problem choice and the reward system in Open Science, with Jean-Michel Dalle, [paper], published in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2007.

• The `problem of problem choice': A model of sequential knowledge production within scientific communities, Currently under revision, (Last Version: Dec 2003).

Empirics and econometrics

• Academic incentives and research organization for patenting at a large French university, [paper], published in Economics of Innovation and New Technologies, 2007.

• La production de brevets par les chercheurs et enseignants-chercheurs. Le cas d'une grande université de recherche française, [paper],  published in Economie et Prévision, 2006.

Public and private funding of academic laboratories: Crowding out evidence from a large European research university, with Rachid Boumahdi, [paper].

• Why do academic scientists engage in Interdisciplinary research?, [paper], published in Research Evaluation, 2005.

• Patent production of a European research university: Evidence at the laboratory level, with Joaquin Azagra-Caro and Patrick Llerena, [paper], published in Journal of Technology Transfer 2006.

• The private contractual funding of academic laboratories: A panel data analysis, with Rachid Boumahdi and Patrick Llerena, [paper], published in Applied Economic Letters 2007.

• Individual and collective determinants of academic scientists' productivity, with Mireille Matt (Univ. Louis Pasteur, BETA), [paper], published in Information Economics and Policy 2006.

• Does research organization influence academic production? Laboratory level evidence from a large European university, with Mireille Matt (BETA, Univ. Louis Pasteur), [paper], published in Research Policy 2004.

• The exploitation of complementarities in the scientific production process at the laboratory level, with Mireille Matt (BETA, Univ. Louis Pasteur), [paper], published in Technovation 2004.

• Objectives, agreements and matching in science-industry collaborations: Reassembling the pieces of the puzzle [paper], published in Research Policy 2003.

• Excellence and relevance. Crowding-in and crowding-out in academic research production and funding, with Rachid Boumahdi and Patrick Llerena, in preparation.


2 Network Formation

• Who's who in patents. A bayesian approach, with Lorenzo Cassi [paper] (Last version: February 2009).

• The strategic formation of inter-individual collaboration networks. Evidence from co-invention patterns, with P. Roux, [paper], published in Annals of Economics and Statistics 2008.

Knowledge flows and the geography of networks. A strategic model of small world formation, with P. Roux, [paper] published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2009.

Inefficiencies in a model of spatial networks formation with positive externalities, with Pascale Roux and Murat Yildizoglu, [paper], published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2008.

• In search of efficient network structures: The needle in the haystack, with Pascale Roux and Murat Yildizoglu, [paper], published in Review of Economic Design 2008.

• Behavioral foundations and equilibrium notions for social network formation processes, with P. Roux[paper], published in Advances in Complex Systems 2004, .

• `Collective innovation' in a model of network formation with preferential meeting, with P. Roux, [paper], published in Springer Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 2005.

• Self-organizing innovation networks: When do Small Worlds emerge? with Pascale Roux [paper], published in European Journal of Economic and Social Systems.

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