Co-authorship and research productivity in economics: Assessing the assortative matching hypothesis

Economic Modelling

Volumn 66, Issue , 2017, Pages 61-80

  Besancenot, Damien ^a   Huynh, Kim ^b   Serranito, Francisco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PANTHÉON ASSAS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

Co authorship; Count data; h index; Instrumental variables; Zero inflate models

Indexed keywords

EID: 85023642078     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2017.05.018     Document Type: Article

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