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Despite their small number, Israeli economists have become an important fixture in the international academic scene. In recent years, this phenomenon has been characterized by an additional attribute: the number of Israelis who have chosen to leave the country’s universities - or not to return...
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potential. Among the determinants of the number of cites the quality of the publication outlet exhibits a strong positive effect … citations predicted by our best model lead to different rankings across the institutes than current citations indicating …
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analyses the welfare implication of such rankings. Consumers have to make a choice between two goods of unknown quality with …
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One of the more important measures of a scholar’s research impact is the number of times that the scholar’s work is cited by other researchers as a source of knowledge. This paper conducts a first of its kind examination on Israel’s academic economists and economics departments, ranking...
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Roger de Piles (1635-1709) was a French art critic who decomposed the style and ability of each artist into areas of composition, drawing, color and expression, rating each on a 20 point scale. Based on evidence from two datasets that together span from 1740 to the present, this paper shows that...
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A vast body of empirical studies lends support to the incentive effects of rank-order tournaments. Evidence comes from … tournaments may bias these non-experimental studies, whereas short task duration or lack of distracters may limit the external … where students selected themselves into tournaments with different prizes. Within each tournament the best performing …
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Money managers behave strategically when competing for fund flows within relatively small groups. We study strategic interaction between two risk-averse managers in continuous time, characterizing analytically their unique equilibrium dynamic investments. Driven by chasing and contrarian...
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We exploit an incentive change in professional soccer leagues aimed at encouraging more attacking and goal scoring to obtain evidence on the effect of stronger incentives on productive and destructive effort. Using as control the behavior of the same teams in a competition that experienced no...
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In sport tournaments, the rules are presumably structured in a way that any team cannot be better off (e.g., to advance … of several round-robin tournaments, monotonic aggregating rules always leave open such a possibility. Then we consider …
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productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …
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