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Nicola Lacetera
Assistant Professor Weatherhead School of
Management Case Western Reserve
University 10090 Euclid Ave Cleveland, OH 44106 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
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)
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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