Private observatories seek public funding

MARkET AND FUNDING IllIQUIDITy: WhEN PRIVATE RISk BECOMES PUBlIC

The market turbulence that began in July 2007 stemmed initially from credit prospects deteriorating in U.S. subprime mortgages, but quickly spread to other markets. Growing uncertainty surrounding the valuation of structured credit instruments affected their liquidity, leading to difficulties in the asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market, where these instruments were partly funded. Illiqui...

Heart of darkness: modeling public–private funding interactions

This paper is a first step toward closing the analytical gap in the extensive literature on the results of interactions between public and private R&D expenditures, and their joint effects on the economy. A survey focusing on econometric studies in this area reveals a plethora of sometimes confusing and frequently contradictory estimates of the response of company-financed R&D to changes in the...

Rules vs. Discretion: Public and Private Funding in Zambian Basic Education Part I: Funding Equity

Startups That Seek to “Disrupt” Get More Funding Than Those That Seek to “Build”

Funding follows public prejudice

cancer in this country because we know the primary cause is tobacco. The problem has almost moved from it being a research problem to being a public health problem.' One of the problems facing researchers is that lung cancer patients are more ill by the time they are diagnosed than many other patients. But there has been substantial progress in fighting the disease, at least in men from the hig...