Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making
利用英国最大研究委员会大量小组数据，发现同一机构的多份申请在资助边缘时，若其中一份已获资助，其他申请更可能被拒，但整体福利损失不大。
The assessing of a pool of competing projects is a challenging task for scientific panels at funding agencies. Using large-scale and rich data from a broad set of panels from the UK's largest research council, we explore whether scientific panels treat overlapping applications from the same institution in a selection round differently. Building on previous research that suggested that panels may favour institutional diversity in funding outcomes, we find that applications at the margin of the funding decision are less likely to be funded when an application from the same institution is also funded. However, we find little evidence of welfare losses associated with this outcome. The implications of these findings for understanding the role of panels in shaping of scientific funding are also examined.