Common Agency Contracting and the Emergence of "Open Science" Institutions

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 15-21

  David, Paul A ^a,b  

^a ALL SOULS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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