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Robust Ranking of Journal Quality: An Application to Economics

Chang, Chia-Lin; Maasoumi, Esfandiar; McAleer, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Economics, in particular, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). The paper … analyses 299 leading international journals in Economics using quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAMs), and highlights …

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Materials, Capital, Direct/Indirect Substitution and Mass Balance Production Functions

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998

&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=2787342"><I>Land Economics</I></A>, 1999, 75(4), 547-561. …

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Mobile Phone Data and Urban Analysis: An Exploratory Space – Time Study

Tranos, Emmanouil; Steenbruggen, John; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper discusses the value that data from mobile phone providers can bring into urban analysis. The novel argument is that the pervasiveness of mobile phone telephony has transformed mobile phones from a communications device to a tool for socio-spatial research. Put simply, mobile phone...

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Transition

Aidis, Ruta - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

Identification of the entrepreneur's economic function has engaged economistsfor more than 200 years. In this paper we address the issue of entrepreneurship intwo distinct ways: a) as it has historically developed within the field of economicsand b) as it develops in the transitional context. In...

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Endogenous Technological Change under Uncertainty

Hek, Paul A. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

How does risk or uncertainty in the productivity of research affect the growth rate of the economy? To answer this …&D from profit-maximizing firms. The uncertainty arises from the productivity of these investments in R&D. The main result of … this analysis is that the relationship between long-run growth and uncertainty (on the productivity of knowledge creation …

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The Impact of Uncertainty on Investment: A Meta-Analysis

Koetse, Mark J.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, Raymond … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. …

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Deliberation, Information Aggregation and Collective Decision Making

Swank, Otto H.; Wrasai, Phongthorn - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

We study a model of collective decision making with endogenous information collection.Agents collect information about the consequences of a project, communicate, and then vote onthe project. We examine under what conditions communication may increase the probability thatgood decisions are made....

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The Economics of Information in Transport

Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

discuss information acquisition from an economics perspective by characterizing costs and benefits of information, leading to …

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Policy Makers, Advisors, and Reputation

Wrasai, Phongthorn; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This discussion paper resulted in an article in the 'Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization' (2007). Volume 62, pages 579-590.<P> When hiring an adviser (he), a policy maker (she) often faces the problem that she has incomplete information about his preferences. Some advisers are good, in...</p>

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Uncertain Technological Change under Capital Mobility

Hek, Paul A. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

is, the growth-uncertainty relationship depends on whether returns to scale in knowledge creation are increasing or non …

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