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Push or Pull? An Empirical Analysis of the Demand for Individual Project Grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation

Wolter, Stefan C.; Hübschi, Rémy; Müller, Matthias - CESifo - 2007

This study empirically analyses on the basis of a panel of grant requests to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF. From the results it can be concluded, that the different scientific disciplines react in very different ways to the institutional and financial framework conditions set by...

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Do Rankings Reflect Research Quality?

Frey, Bruno S.; Rost, Katja - CESifo - 2008

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries …

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Withering Academia?

Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 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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Determinants of Voluntary Bank Disclosure: Evidence from Japanese Shinkin Banks

Spiegel, Mark M.; Yamori, Nobuyoshi - CESifo - 2004

Disclosure is widely regarded as a necessary condition for market discipline in a modern financial sector. However, the … determinants of disclosure decisions are still unknown, particularly among banks. This paper investigates the determinants of … disclosure by Japanese Shinkin banks in 1996 and 1997. This period is unique because disclosure of non-performing loans was …

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Communicating Subjective Evaluations

Lang, Matthias - CESifo - 2014

Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? Suppose the principal’s evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly cheap-talk message. If she does not provide justification, her message space is restricted, but the message is costless. I...

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Strategic Complementarity, Fragility, and Regulation

Vives, Xavier - CESifo - 2011

disclosure or introducing a derivatives market may backfire, aggravating fragility (in particular when the asset side of a … financial intermediary is opaque); the regulator should set together disclosure and prudential policy. The model is applied to …

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Firm Size and Diversification: Asymmetric Multiproduct Firms under Cournot Competition

Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2003

A positive relationship between firm size and product diversification is a long-standing stylized fact. However, so far there is no appropriate theoretical model to explain the underlying forces of this observation. This paper analyzes an oligopoly model with asymmetric multiproduct frms, which...

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Managerial Job Assignment and Imperfect Competition in Asymmetric Equilibrium

Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2003

This paper develops a model with multiple market locations in which the quality of intangible assets of firms, provided by management, determines the firms. performance. Despite an ex ante symmetry of potential entrants, the equilibrium assignment of heterogeneous managerial skills to firms...

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Privatisation Policy in Spain: Stuck Between Liberalisation and the Protection of Nationals’ Interests

Arocena, Pablo - CESifo - 2004

This paper carries out an overview of the recent history of privatisation in Spain. At this point, the paper focuses on …

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The Actuarial Balance Sheet for Pay-As-You-Go Finance: Solvency Indicators for Spain and Sweden

Boado-Penas, Maria del Carmen; Valdés-Prieto, Salvador; … - CESifo - 2008

This paper provides the first estimate of the actuarial balance of the Spanish contributory pension system for the old age contingency, based on official data. The novel entry in the balance sheet, named “Contribution Asset” or “Hidden Asset”, is at the centre of the theoretical...

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