Corsi, Marcella; D'Ippoliti, Carlo; Lucidi, Federico - In: American Journal of Economics and Sociology 69 (2010) 5, pp. 1495-1529
We analyze Italy's recent research evaluation exercise (VTR) as a salient example in discussing some internationally relevant issues emerging from the evaluation of research in economics. We claim that evaluation and its criteria, together with its linkage to research institutions' financing,...