Superstar Extinction

We estimate the magnitude of spillovers generated by 112 academic “superstars” who died prematurely and unexpectedly, thus providing an exogenous source of variation in the structure of their collaborators’ coauthorship networks. Following the death of a superstar, we find that collaborators expe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Azoulay, Pierre, Wang, Jialan, Graff Zivin, Joshua S.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58802
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6511-4824