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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals’ well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...

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Do rankings reflect research quality?

Frey, Bruno S.; Rost, Katja - 2008

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of...

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Politicians: be killed or survive

Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - 2008

In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...

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Awards in economics: towards a new field of inquiry

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009

Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards. However, little scientific attention has been devoted to them. This paper documents the prevalence of awards in the economics profession and analyzes the number and type of awards...

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World heritage: where are we? An empirical analysis

Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2010

An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The … officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the … considered balanced from different points of view. It turns out that the World Heritage List is unbalanced with respect to a …

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World heritage list: Does it make sense?

Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2010

The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World …

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Making world heritage truly global : the culture certificate scheme

Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2009

Culture has attributes of a global public good that needs to be preserved for mankind as a whole. World Culture … Certificates are proposed to efficiently preserve World Heritage. The community of nations has to agree on the Global Heritage List … and how much each nation is to contribute to that purpose. Each World Heritage site conserved is acknowledged through the …

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Awards as signals

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2010

Awards are widespread in all countries and are prevalent both in the public sphere and in the private sector. This paper argues, and empirically supports, that awards serve public functions and economists should take them seriously. Using a unique cross-country data set, we suggest that awards...

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