Publications by Charles Chadi Ayoubi

Knowledge diffusion and morality: Why do we freely share valuable information with Strangers?

This article offers a model integrating heterogeneously moral preferences to overcome the seemingly irrational tendency of individuals to freely share data and knowledge. We build on recent literature showing that moral preferences are favored by evolution ...

WILEY2022

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

Institutions and Incentives in Knowledge Production and Diffusion: From Science to Innovation

Charles Chadi Ayoubi

This thesis presents four essays providing novel empirical and theoretical insights on the incentives and institutional structures that favor knowledge production and diffusion. The first two studies analyze these processes in the realm of scientific resea ...

EPFL2020

COVID-19 : Insights from innovation economists

Dominique Foray, Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Charles Chadi Ayoubi, Gabriele Pellegrino, George Abi Younes, Omar Ballester Gonzalez, Gabriele Cristelli, Ling Zhou, Matthias David van den Heuvel

The present document provides the take of innovation economists on the COVID-19 pandemic. It targets the general public and focuses on questions related to the Science, Technology, and Innovation ecosystem. It provides a reading of current real-world devel ...

2020

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

Exploring the diversity of social preferences: Is a heterogeneous population evolutionarily stable under assortative matching?

Boris Thurm, Charles Chadi Ayoubi

Why do individuals make different decisions when confronted with similar choices? This paper investigates whether the answer lies in an evolutionary process. Our analysis builds on recent work in evolutionary game theory showing the superiority of a given ...

2018

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

A heterogeneous evolutionary stable population under assortative matching: Exploring the diversity of preferences

Boris Thurm, Charles Chadi Ayoubi

Recent studies have shown that a population acting not only upon self-interest but also exhibiting some morality preference has an evolutionary advantage. Specifically, in the setting of a symmetric fitness game, a resident population is evolutionary stabl ...

2017