The relationship between politics and scientific policy advice is still characterized by misunderstandings on both sides. A major point of criticism from the political arena is repeatedly the lacking concern for reality in economics. This problem, however, is at least partly homemade, as the...

This paper estimates demand elasticities for the Turkish mobile telecommunication market. In contrast to most other studies, firm level data is used to estimate dynamic panel data models including instrumental variable techniques. Both short- and long-run elasticities are calculated, yielding a...

This note contains an empirical analysis of the decision of German‐speaking business scholars to boycott and opt out of the best known research ranking of business scholars, initiated and published by Germany's largest business daily, Handelsblatt. Our analysis indicates that scientists who...

The German reserve power market was subject to important regulatory changes in recent years. A new market design was created by synchronization and interconnection of the four control areas. In this paper, we analyze whether or not the reforms led to lower prices for minute reserve power (MRP)....

Der vorliegende Beitrag trägt einige empirische Belege zum Verhältnis von wirtschaftspolitischer Beratung und ökonomischer (Spitzen-)Forschung in Deutschland zusammen, um die fortwährende Debatte über dieses Verhältnis mit einer - wenn auch nur etwas - breiteren Datenbasis zu versehen....

Während die Forschungs- und insbesondere die wissenschaftliche Publikationstätigkeit von Ökonomen Gegenstand zahlreicher systematischer Untersuchungen und Vergleiche ist, besteht zur Politikberatungstätigkeit häufig nur anekdotische Evidenz. Das ist nicht unproblematisch, denn es ist...

This is paper analyses the interrelationship between perceived journal relevance and reputation. Based on a survey of 705 members of the German Economic Association, we find a strong interrelationship between journal reputation and relevance where a journal's perceived relevance has a stronger...