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research performance. We find evidence of positive incentive and status effects that raise both productivity and citation …Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This …’ subsequent research activity and status compared to a synthetic control group of non-recipient scholars with similar previous …
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This paper discusses rising enrolment rates, access, governance, underperformance in research and teaching, lack of …, researchers and teachers and open up national funding schemes. The EU should take more initiatives to fund research through the …
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signaling research talent to outsiders. Awards should therefore be taken seriously as a means of motivating research that may …
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, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern research. Academia, in a broader sense understood as “the locus of seeking …
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We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The …
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We present an analysis of the share of public ownership in the product market in the OECD countries from 1974 to 2007. Despite much has been said on the broad topic of reforms and regulation, a sector-specific insight is missing. We replicate the analysis of Galasso (2014) by sector of activity...
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The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered a severe recession in 2008. While the rate declined relatively rapidly in 2011, it remained high especially for the less educated. In 2009, the Employment Contract Law relaxed...
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This paper analyses the reaction of fiscal policy to the cycle in OECD countries. The results suggest that while overall government balances were counter-cyclical in the past and more so in economic downturns than in upswings, discretionary fiscal policy was neutral on average. However,...
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In this paper we use a representative consumer model to analyse the equilibrium relation between the transitory deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for both stock returns and housing returns. The evidence...
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This paper reviews the practice and performance of revenue forecasting in selected OECD countries. While the mean forecast errors are small in most countries, the precision of the forecasts measured by the standard deviation of the forecast error differs substantially across countries. Based on...
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