How Do Travel Costs Shape Collaboration?

We develop a simple theoretical framework for thinking about how geographic frictions, and in particular travel costs, shape scientists' collaboration decisions and the types of projects that are developed locally versus over distance. We then take advantage of a quasi-experiment-the introducti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Catalini, Christian, Fons-Rosen, Christian, Gaulé, Patrick
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129745