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The effect of university attended on graduates' labour market prospects : a field study of Great Britain

Drydakis, Nick - 2016

Utilizing data for comparable BSc graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the same entry standards, we compare job seekers' employment prospects when they search by themselves for jobs by submitting CVs to the same firms. The outcomes suggest that graduates...

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Academic ranking scales in economics : prediction and imputation

Zharova, Alona; Mihoci, Andrija; Härdle, Wolfgang - 2016

quality of published research that enters decisions on jobs, salary, tenure, etc. Academic ranking scales in economics and … ranking systems are competing, allow for different disciplinary gravity and sometimes give orthogonal results. Here a … Scholar (GS) systems is presented. Quantile regression allows us to successfully predict missing ranking data and to obtain a …

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A critique of momentum anomalies

Souza, Thiago de Oliveira - 2019

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How robust are estimated country welfare? : an investigation of welfare ranking, based on indices calculated using random weights.

Olsson, Michael - 2010

We measure country welfare by an index number calculated from welfare components like GDP per capita and expected length of life. We rank countries from high to low welfare using such estimated welfare indices. In such calculation the chosen welfare components, the procedures used to normalize...

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Supporting the UN SDGs transition : methodology for sustainability assessment and current worldwide ranking

Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio; Farnia, Luca; … - 2017

-dimensional index and a worldwide ranking of current sustainability. This allows informing on strengths and weaknesses of today … ranking includes 139 countries. North European countries are at top of the ranking (Sweden, Norway and Switzerland). …

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Transparency in non-tariff Measures : an international comparison

Ing, Lili Yan; Cadot, Olivier; Walz, Janine - 2016

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How robust are journal rankings based on the impact factor? : evidence from the economic sciences

Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2014

It is well-known that the distribution of citations to articles in a journal is skewed. We ask whether journal rankings based on the impact factor are robust with respect to this fact. We exclude the most cited paper, the top 5 and 10 cited papers for 100 economics journals and recalculate the...

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Ranking tourism attractions based on potential to attract tourists by using numerical taxonomy model (case: City of Khoy)

Gilandeh, Ata Ghafari; Silabi, Parvin Dadazade; … - In: Journal of urban economics and management : a quarterly … 5 (2017) 20, pp. 113-126

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Measuring skill and chance in games

Dürsch, Peter; Lambrecht, Marco; Oechssler, Joerg - 2017 - This version: December 20, 2017

Online and offline gaming has become a multi-billion dollar industry.However, games of chance are prohibited or tightly regulated in many jurisdictions. Thus, the question whether a game predominantly depends on skill or chance has important legal and regulatory implications. In this paper, we...

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Hotel rankings of online travel agents, channel pricing and consumer protection

Hunold, Matthias; Kesler, Reinhold; Laitenberger, Ulrich - 2018

We investigate whether online travel agents (OTAs) assign hotels worse positions in their search results if these set lower hotel prices at other OTAs or on their own websites. We formally characterize how an OTA can use such a strategy to reduce price differentiation across distribution...

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