02210cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF021118 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513550879 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Essers, Dennis. Network Effects and Research Collaborations / Dennis Essers, Francesco Grigoli, Evgenia Pugacheva. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020. 1 online resource (47 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students We study the determinants of new and repeated research collaborations, drawing on the co-authorship network of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s Working Papers series. Being an outlet where authors express their views on topics of interest, and given that IMF staff is not subject to the 'publish-or-perish' conditions of the academia, the IMF Working Papers series constitutes an appropriate testing ground to examine the endogenous nature of co-authorship formation. We show that the co-authorship network is characterized by many authors with few direct co-authors, yet indirectly connected to each other through short co-authorship chains. We find that a shorter distance in the co-authorship network is key for starting research collaborations. Also, higher research productivity, being employed in the same department, and having citizenship of the same region help to start and repeat collaborations. Furthermore, authors with different co-authorship network sizes are more likely to collaborate, possibly reflecting synergies between senior and junior staff members. Mode of access: Internet Grigoli, Francesco. Pugacheva, Evgenia. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/144 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2020/144/001.2020.issue-144-en.xml IMF e-Library