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The as-is journal review process: Let authors own their ideas

Tsang, Eric W. K.; Frey, Bruno S. - 2006

Recently, the problems associated with the existing journal review process aroused discussions from seasoned management researchers, who have also made useful suggestions for improving the process. To complement these suggestions, we propose a more radical change: a manuscript should be reviewed...

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Using Financial Markets to Analyze History: The Case of the Second World War

Frey, Bruno S.; Waldenstrom, Daniel - 2007

A central aspect of historical research is to provide explanations for the causes and effects of events that occurred in the past, in particular the Second World War. History can be analyzed and explained from different perspectives. Two such perspectives are considered, the first being the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168277

Withering Academia

Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of "university", and inadequate organizational forms for modern...

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Citation Success Over Time: Theory or Empirics?

Johnston, David W.; Piatti, Marco; Torgler, Benno - 2012

This study investigates the citation patterns of theoretical and empirical papers over a period of almost 30 years, while also exploring the determinants of citation success. The results indicate that empirical papers attract more citation success than theoretical studies. However, the pattern...

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Does sports make people happier, or do happy people more sports?

Frey, Bruno S.; Gullo, Anthony - 2021

Between sports and happiness. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find a positive … causal directions. It turns out that the causal impact of engaging in sports on happiness is about four times higher than the … effect of happiness on engaging in sports. …

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Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2004

Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities. Following Adam Smith, helping others is the way to higher individual well-being. This view contrasts with the selfish utility maximizer who avoids costs from helping others. The two rival views are studied empirically. We...

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Does Envy Destroy Social Fundamentals? The Impact of Relative Income Position on Social Capital

Fischer, Justina A.V.; Torgler, Benno - 2006

Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individual attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, this paper assesses such positional impact on social capital by applying 14 different measurements to International Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We...

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Should National Happiness be Maximized?

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2007

Cross-disciplinary ?happiness research? has made big progress in the measurement of individual welfare. This … development makes it tempting to pursue the old dream of maximizing aggregate happiness as a social welfare function. However, we … postulate that the appropriate approach is not to maximize aggregate happiness in seeking to improve outcomes by direct policy …

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Social Capital and Relative Income Concerns: Evidence from 26 Countries

Fischer, Justina A.V.; Torgler, Benno - 2007

Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individuals' attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, using the International Social Survey Programme 1998 data from 26 countries this paper investigates the impact of relative income on 14 measurements of social...

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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the happiest of them all?

Torgler, Benno; Antic, Nemanja; Dulleck, Uwe - 2007

This paper turns Snow-White's magic mirror onto recent economics Nobel Prize winners, top economists and happiness … explores the extent to which information matters and whether individuals' self-reported happiness affects their perceptions … about the happiness of these superstars in economics. …

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