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Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels …, Education Sciences, Engineering, Medicine and Sport. This journal provides students the opportunity to create and / or to … abroad. The journal promotes original studies contributing to the progress of knowledge and it is motivated by the need to …
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This paper studies intergovernmental transfers. Many intergovernmental transfers are said to serve political purposes. We augment a standard model of political career concerns to allow for multilevel governance. When elections are simultaneous, there is no equilibrium with non-zero transfers as...
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We study optimal incentives in a principal-agent problem in which the agent's outside option is determined endogenously in a competitive labor market. In equilibrium, strong performance increases the agent's market value. When this value becomes sufficiently high, the threat of the agent's...
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We address the question how much authority a principal should delegate to a manager with conflicting interests and uncertain ability in a context in which the manager has both compensationbased and reputational incentives. The optimal level of authority balances the value of the manager’s...
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Many disasters are foreshadowed by insufficient preventative care. In this paper, we argue that there is a true problem of prevention, in that insufficient care is often the result of rational calculations on the part of agents. We identify three factors that lead to dubious efforts in care....
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Journal articles are sometimes later reprinted as chapters of edited books. The question whether citations of this … material should mention the book or the journal has significant implications. I describe several advantages of citing the … journal: it allows the readers to locate the material more easily and to handle it more conveniently (when it is available …
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rankings of Australian and New Zealand economics teaching departments for 1988-2002 and 1996-2002 using alternative rankings …
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from Economic Research Journal Issue 1 in 2000 to the Issue 12 in 2010 are using for an empirical study. It shows that … papers published at the beginning of the year get more download and citations than which published at year-end significantly …
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databases used to rank journals in terms of their productivity and the total citations received to indicate the journals impact …
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signed by academic scientists but owned by private companies) in the period 1990-2001. The UK is an interesting case to study … characteristics, corporate patents received more citations than university patents in the �first three years after fi�ling, but (2 … localised than those from corporate patents. Finally, (5) among scientists� characteristics, professor�'s scientifi�c quality …
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