Specific and General Information Sharing Among Academic Scientists

Carolin Haeussler, Lin Jiang, Jerry Thursby, Marie C. Thursby

NBER Working Paper No. 15315
Issued in September 2009

---- Acknowledgements -----

The authors are grateful for invaluable discussions with Emmanuel Dechenaux, Ilinen Kondo, Hugo Mialon, Nico Lacetera and participants of seminars at the 2009 NBER Summer Institute, and the 2009 Communia in Turin Italy. Haeussler acknowledges financial support from the German Research Foundation [SFB TR15] and the Munich Center of Health Sciences. Jiang and Marie Thursby acknowledge funding from the National Science Foundation (Sub-award 44771-7471 of Award 0335765) and the Mildred and Alan Peterson Foundation. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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