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Nicola Lacetera

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics

Weatherhead School of Management

Case Western Reserve University

10090 Euclid Ave

Cleveland, OH 44106

nicola.lacetera@case.edu

Ph: 216 368 2197

 

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Welcome to my web site. I am an applied economist studying strategy, organization, and innovation issues. My methods of research include applied theoretical modeling as well as econometric analyses, surveys and field and lab experiments. My research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Russel Sage Foundation, and the International Motor Vehicle Program. I hold a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

My research papers and popular writings are reported below.

 

Published and forthcoming papers (click on the titles to download)

 

Different Missions and Commitment Power in R&D Organization: Theory and Evidence on Industry-University Relations, Organization Science, 20, 3, 565-582, 2009. [Published version here]

Academic Entrepreneurship, Managerial and Decision Economics, forthcoming.

Sample Size and Precision in NIH Peer Review (with David Kaplan and Celia Kaplan), PLoS One, July 23rd, 2008.

(Apparently, they took us seriously!)

 

Working papers (click on the titles to download)

Strategy and Innovation

Parallel Search, Incentives and Problem Type: Revisiting the Competition and Innovation Link (with Kevin Boudreau and Karim Lakhani), Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-041

Knowledge Spillovers, Competition, and Taste for Science in a Model of R&D Incentive Provision (with Lorenzo Zirulia), University of Bologna Working Paper 624

Measuring Creativity:  a YouTube Study (with David Kaplan and Celia Kaplan)

 

Economics of Science and Academia

The Economics of Scientific Misconduct (with Lorenzo Zirulia), Bocconi University – CESPRI Working Paper 215.

Inside or Outside the IP System? Business Creation in Academia (with Riccardo Fini and Scott Shane)

Openness and Authority in Industry-University Alliances.

 

Economics of Giving and Altruism

Will There Be Blood? Material Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-Social Behavior (with Mario Macis and Robert Slonim)

Motivating Altruism: A Field Study (with Mario Macis), IZA discussion paper 3770

This paper inspired one of Gary Becker`s famous Problem Sets! [PDF]

Social Image Concerns and Pro-Social Behavior (with Mario Macis), IZA Discussion Paper 3771

Do All Material Incentives for Prosocial Activities Backfire? The Response to Cash and Non-Cash Incentives for Blood Donations (with Mario Macis)

Summaries and reports of our work on blood donations:

                        Slate.com (The Big Money)

                        Vox (policy portal of the Centre for Economic Policy Research)

                        IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor)

                        LaVoce.info (economic policy website, in Italian)

Aftab.ir (Iranian online magazine)

 

 

Work in Progress

·         Incentives for Blood Donation: Natural and Field Experiments (with Mario Macis and Robert Slonim)

·         The Effects of New-Car Incentives on Used-Car Prices (with Justin Sydnor)

·         Quality Differences in Car Production between Countries and Plants (with Justin Sydnor)

·         The Core and Periphery of Academia and Scientific Breakthroughs (with David Clingingsmith)

·         Punishing A while Hoping to Deter B (with Mario Macis)

·         Angels in America (with Scott Shane)

·         Clustering relationships: theory and evidence from the automobile industry (with Susan Helper)

·         Innovation and Disagreement (with David Kaplan)

 

 

 

 

Older works

Goodyear: The Radial Tire Decision, MIT Sloan School Teaching Case (with Rebecca Henderson), 2005.

Do firms change their capabilities by hiring new people? A study of the adoption of science-driven drug research (with Iain Cockburn and Rebecca Henderson), Advances in Strategic Management (edited by Joel Baum and Anita McGahan), 21, 2004.

Corporate Governance and the Governance of Innovation: the Case of the Pharmaceutical Industry, Journal of Management and Governance, 5, 1, 29-59, 2001.

Political and Technological Regimes in the Evolution of the Pharmaceutical Industry in the USA and in Europe (with Luigi Orsenigo), EPRIS Working Paper (European Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation Systems).

 

 

Popular writings (in the Italian online Economics and Policy magazine www.lavoce.info):

http://www.lavoce.info/lavocepuntoinfo/autori/pagina230.html