Optimal public funding for research: a theoretical analysis
This article studies how a government should distribute funds among research institutions and how it should allocate them to basic and applied research. Institutions differ in reputation and efficiency, and have an information advantage. The government should award funding for basic research to indu...
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| description | This article studies how a government should distribute funds among research institutions and how it should allocate them to basic and applied research. Institutions differ in reputation and efficiency, and have an information advantage. The government should award funding for basic research to induce the most productive institutions to carry out more applied research than they would like. Institutions with better reputation do more research than otherwise identical ones, and applied research is inefficiently concentrated in the most efficient high reputation institutions. The article provides theoretical support for a dual channel funding mechanism, but not for full economic costing. |
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| spelling | nottingham-305182020-05-04T20:34:30Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30518/ Optimal public funding for research: a theoretical analysis De Fraja, Gianni This article studies how a government should distribute funds among research institutions and how it should allocate them to basic and applied research. Institutions differ in reputation and efficiency, and have an information advantage. The government should award funding for basic research to induce the most productive institutions to carry out more applied research than they would like. Institutions with better reputation do more research than otherwise identical ones, and applied research is inefficiently concentrated in the most efficient high reputation institutions. The article provides theoretical support for a dual channel funding mechanism, but not for full economic costing. Wiley Article PeerReviewed De Fraja, Gianni Optimal public funding for research: a theoretical analysis. RAND Journal of Economics . ISSN 0741-6261 (In Press) |
| spellingShingle | De Fraja, Gianni Optimal public funding for research: a theoretical analysis |
| title | Optimal public funding for research: a theoretical analysis |
| title_full | Optimal public funding for research: a theoretical analysis |
| title_fullStr | Optimal public funding for research: a theoretical analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optimal public funding for research: a theoretical analysis |
| title_short | Optimal public funding for research: a theoretical analysis |
| title_sort | optimal public funding for research: a theoretical analysis |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30518/ |