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Monetary Persistence and the Labor Market: A New Perspective

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2010

In this paper we propose a novel way to model the labor market in the context of a New-Keynesian general equilibrium model, incorporating labor market frictions in the form of hiring and firing costs. We show that such a model is able to replicate many important stylized facts of the business...

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Do Economic Policymakers Practice what they Preach? The Case of Pension Decisions

Dahan, Momi; Kogut, Tehila; Shalem, Moshe - CESifo - 2009

This paper examines whether policymakers, economists at the Israeli Finance Ministry, act in their personal pension decisions in accordance with the rational behaviour assumptions underlying the pension policies they advance. We find that while economists' decisions regarding three other...

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A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review

Eckstein, Zvi; Gal-Or, Esther; Gylfason, Thorvaldur; … - CESifo - 2011

This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we worked as an editorial team, the central role of the editorial office manager, how we managed to...

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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)

Praag, Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - CESifo - 2007

Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...

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Evaluation of Researchers: A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists

Rauber, Michael; Ursprung, Heinrich - CESifo - 2006

research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German … academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the … research grants. We then go on to investigate the persistence of individual productivity. The Persistence issue is of special …

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Withering Academia?

Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2010

, 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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Trade Sanctions, Financial Transfers and BRIC's Participation in Global Climate Change Negotiations

Tian, Huifang; Whalley, John - CESifo - 2009

Countries can reduce global emissions by reducing own consumption since they are linked to the total value of consumption world wide. Two effects are at issue: a utility loss from forgone consumption and a utility gain from lowered temperature change. It is thus unclear whether own country...

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External Influence as an Indicator of Scholarly Importance

Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Schaffner, … - CESifo - 2013

The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...

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Exchange Rates and Asset Prices: Heterogeneous Agents at Work

Piccillo, Giulia - CESifo - 2013

This paper merges two branches of the literature. On one hand we study a heterogeneous agents framework to model exchange rates and stock prices. On the other hand we model the relationship between these two series through a DSGE model. Investors choose one of two rules to form their...

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Happiness of Economists

Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah; Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2014

related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of a tenured position decreases satisfaction. However, the extent to …

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