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PUBLICATION PERFORMANCE OF ECONOMISTS AND ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS IN TURKEY (1999-2003)
cokgezen, murat - EconWPA - 2005
This is the first study evaluating publication performances of economists and economics departments in Turkey. Findings … show wide gaps between the Top-Five economics departments and economists affiliated to these universities and the others …. Publication patterns of Turkish economists are the same with their counterparts living in the rest of the world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124928
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Equity Returns and Inflation: The Puzzlingly Long Lags
Lothian, James R.; McCarthy, Cornelia H.. - EconWPA - 2001
equities fail the test as inflation hedges, as had been quite widely believed, but that they take so long to pass. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124935
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Economic Models for Management of Resources in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing
Buyya, Rajkumar; Stockinger, Heinz; Giddy, Jonathan; … - EconWPA - 2001
The accelerated development in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Grid computing has positioned them as promising next generation computing platforms. They enable the creation of Virtual Enterprises (VE) for sharing resources distributed across the world. However, resource management, application...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134568
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Scientific prestige of the Spanish Economic journals. Professors' working habits in the Economics' departments of the public Spanish universities
Román, Adelaida; Giménez, Elea - EconWPA - 2001
This paper analyzes the data from a questionnaire mailed to professors in the Economics' departments of the Spanish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062658
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Western Institution Building:The War, Hayek’s Cosmos and the WTO
Killion, M. Ulric - EconWPA - 2005
Despite the shortcomings of Hayek’s spontaneous order, there is a positive side, perhaps even a positive feedback. Hayek left us with a “what if” question and returns us to that initial opening of Pandora’s Box, or perhaps the initial onset of neo-realism, neo-liberalism,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407658
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Tropical Forest Protection, Uncertainty, and the Environmental Integrity of Carbon Mitigation Policies
Kerr, Suzi; Hendy, Joanna; Liu, Shuguang; Pfaff, … - EconWPA - 2004
Tropical forests are estimated to release approximately 1.7 PgC per year as a result of deforestation. Avoiding tropical deforestation could potentially play a significant role in carbon mitigation over the next 50 years if not longer. Many policymakers and negotiators are skeptical of our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407780
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Reform of Building Regulation
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2005
The Productivity Commission's final research report, released December 2004, responds to a request by the Australian Government to examine the contribution that national reform of building regulation has made and further reform could make to the performance of the building and construction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407799
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Rules of Origin under the Australia–New Zealand CER Trade Agreement
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
Rules of origin arrangements under the Australia–New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (CER) were referred to the Commission for examination and report by May 2004. The request stemmed from concerns that Australian and New Zealand firms were having difficulty achieving the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408017
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Money (Real and Fictitious)Game, Banking and Taxation
Misra, Krishna Gopal - EconWPA - 2005
'Reality of money' is curiously similar to uncertainty theory of (Hisenburg)quantum physics. To some (natural societies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408103
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The economics of impatience
Fehr, Ernst - EconWPA - 2003
In experiments, animals often prefer smaller, immediate rewards over larger rewards that are deferred — thus failing to maximize their total gain. Many people exhibit similar behaviour.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408238