Publications by Fabiana Visentin

Does It Pay to Do Novel Science? The Selectivity Patterns in Science Funding

Fabiana Visentin, Michele Pezzoni, Charles Chadi Ayoubi

Public funding agencies aim to fund novel breakthrough research to promote the radical scientific discoveries of tomorrow. Identifying the profiles of scientists being financed to pursue their research is therefore crucial. This paper shows that the fundin ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021

The important thing is not to win, it is to take part: What if scientists benefit from participating in research grant competitions?

Fabiana Visentin, Michele Pezzoni, Charles Chadi Ayoubi

“The important thing is not to win, it is to take part,” this famous saying by Pierre de Coubertin asserts that the value athletes draw from Olympic games lies in their participation in the event and not in the gold they collect during it. We find similar ...

2019

At the Origins of Learning: Absorbing Knowledge Flows from within the Team

Fabiana Visentin, Michele Pezzoni, Charles Chadi Ayoubi

Empirical studies document a positive effect of collaboration on team productivity. However, little has been done to assess how knowledge flows among team members. Our study addresses this issue by exploring unique rich data on a Swiss funding program prom ...

Elsevier2017

The productivity of science & engineering PhD students hired from supervisors’ networks

Annamaria Conti, Stefano Horst Baruffaldi, Fabiana Visentin

We compare the scientific productivity of PhD students who are hired from a fine-grained set of mutually exclusive affiliation types: a PhD supervisor's affiliation, an external affiliation from which the supervisor derives her coauthors, and an external a ...

Elsevier2016

Can medical products be developed on a non-profit basis? Exploring product development partnerships for neglected diseases

Dominique Foray, Patrick Gaulé, Viviana Carolina Munoz Tellez de Kieffer, Fabiana Visentin

Reliance on market forces can lead to underinvestment in social welfare enhancing innovation. The lack of new medical products in the area of neglected diseases is a case in point. R&D for neglected diseases has increased with new funding and collaboration ...

Oxford University Press2015

Science and Engineering Ph.D. Students’ Career Outcomes, by Gender

Annamaria Conti, Fabiana Visentin

We examine differences in the careers of men and women Ph.D.s from two major European universities. Having performed regression analysis, we find that women are more likely than men to be employed in public administration when the alternatives are either a ...

Public Library of Science2015

A revealed preference analysis of PhD students’ choices over employment outcomes

Annamaria Conti, Fabiana Visentin

We develop a revealed preference approach to elicit science and engineering PhDs’ preferences over employment outcomes, exploiting cohort size variations. Depending on whether pecuniary and non-pecuniary rewards are sticky or not, increments in the PhDs’ c ...

Elsevier2015

Knowledge Specialization in Ph.D. Student Groups

Annamaria Conti, Fabiana Visentin

Researchers have argued that specialization within groups yields productivity gains. We evaluate this statement with a focus on groups of Ph.D. students. Using an established technique in computer science called Latent Dirichlet Allocation, we construct a ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Product Development Partnerships for Neglected Diseases: Exploring a New Model of Pharmaceutical R&D

Dominique Foray, Patrick Gaulé, Viviana Carolina Munoz Tellez de Kieffer, Fabiana Visentin

Beech Tree Publishing2014

Resource Partitioning and the Organizational Dynamics of ‘Fringe Banking’

Fabiana Visentin

We examine the emergence and proliferation of payday lenders, fringe businesses that provide small short-term, but high-cost loans. We link the organizational dynamics of these businesses to two trends in consumer lending in the United States: the continui ...

American Sociological Association2014