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This paper advances two propositions, one concerning content, the other concerning research strategy. (1) The advent of wide-spread internet publishing reduces the stifling impact of the refereeing process on the papers accepted and submitted to journals. Economics scholars are less bound to...
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Many people believe that economists in general are more selfish than other people and that this greater selfishness is … economists can be explained by a selection effect. …
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Most professional economists believe that economist in general are more selfish than other persons and that this …
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Academic economists today are caught in a “Publication Impossibility Theorem System” or PITS. To further their careers …
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Which schools of thought are favored by German economists? What makes a good economist and which economists have been … ‘Verein für Socialpolitik’, the association of German speaking economists. An econometric analysis is used to identify to what … economists favor Neoclassics as a school of thought and appreciate the contributions of their Anglo-Saxon colleagues much more …
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Public choice theory takes citizens as rationally ignorant about political issues, because the costs of being informed greatly exceed the utility individuals derive from it. The costs of information (supply side) as well as the utility of information (demand side), however, can vary...
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economists fail to understand fundamental economic questions when they disregard social preferences, in particular, that without …
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This paper tests the effect of a matching mechanism on donations in a controlled field experiment. We match the donations of students at the University of Zurich who, each semester, have to decide whether they wish to contribute to two Social Funds. Our results support the hypothesis that a...
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This paper tests the effect of a matching mechanism on donations in a controlled field experiment. We match the donations of students at the University of Zurich who, each semester, have to decide whether they wish to contribute to two Social Funds. Our results support the hypothesis that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627935
This paper addresses the discussion between economic power and the power of politics with particular focus on financial markets. After general reflections about the economic basis of power, the paper discusses in a general equilibrium framework how financial innovations can lead to risk creation...
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