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Testing William Baumol's "Toward a Newer Economics: The Future Lies Ahead!"
Piatti, Marco; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2010
20 years ago, William Baumol provided an interesting wish list that outlined his hopes for the future of economics over the next hundred years. Impatiently, this paper puts his wish list to the test by comparing the characteristics of publications that appeared in the American Economic Review...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764541
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A Century of American Economic Review
Torgler, Benno; Piatti, Marco - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2011
Using information collected from American Economic Review publications of the last 100 years, we try to provide answers to various questions: Which are the top AER publishing institutions and countries? Which are the top AER papers based on citation success? How frequently is someone able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854183
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External Influence as an Indicator of Scholarly Importance
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Schaffner, … - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959936
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Do the Best Scholars and Economists Attract the Highest Speaking Fees?
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Schaffner, … - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2013
capitalized on the speakers' market while research performance (measured by publication and citation indicators) cannot. There is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763988
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External Influence as an Indicator of Scholarly Importance
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Schaffner, … - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693082
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Does The John Bates Clark Medal Boost Subsequent Productivity And Citation Success?
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2013
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 … research performance. We find evidence of positive incentive and status effects that raise both productivity and citation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010608026
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Editorial Ruminations: Publishing Kyklos
Frey, Bruno S.; Eichenberger, Reiner; Frey, Rene L. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2009
Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish in A-journals, the main role of which consists in certifying that a paper meets traditional academic standards. Consequences of this pressure are multiple authorship, slicing of ideas and incentives to deviate from the truth. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673523
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Citation Success Over Time: Theory or Empirics?
Johnston, David W.; Piatti, Marco; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2012
This study investigates the citation patterns of theoretical and empirical papers over a period of almost 30 years, while also exploring the determinants of citation success. The results indicate that empirical papers attract more citation success than theoretical studies. However, the pattern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551391
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Happiness of economists
Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah; Bruno S .Frey - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2014
’ professional situation influence their well-being. Happiness is increased by having more research time while the lack of a tenured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096305
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the happiest of them all?
Torgler, Benno; Antic, Nemanja; Dulleck, Uwe - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2007
This paper turns Snow-White?s magic mirror onto recent economics Nobel Prize winners, top economists and happiness researchers, and through the eyes of the ?man in the street? seeks to determine who the happiest academic is. The study not only provides a clear answer to this question but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673502