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Frey, Bruno S. - 2007

This paper argues that politicians are overprotected. The costs of political assassination differ systematically depending on whether a private or a public point of view is taken. A politician attributes a very high (if not infinite) cost to his or her survival. The social cost of political...

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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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Omnimetrics and Awards

Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

The digital revolution has led to a quantification of ever more areas of human life and society. At the same time, there is an explosion of the number of awards, which by their very nature are based on non-quantified performance. Will quantification take over completely, leading to...

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Reactivity in Economic Science

Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

There is a fundamental difference between the natural and the social sciences due to reactivity. This difference remains even in the age of Artificially Intelligent Learning Machines and Big Data. Many academic economists take it as a matter of course that economics should become a natural...

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Pay as you go: A new proposal for museum pricing

Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2010

Museums have many different goals beyond efficiency such as social equity, financial revenue, attracting donors and gaining international, regional or local prestige. Various pricing schemes are being discussed with the aim of reaching these goals. The classical ones are entry prices and free...

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Migration and networks: Does education matter more than gender?

Beine, Michel; Salomone, Sara - 2010

This paper looks at the impact of networks on international migration flows to OECD countries. In particular, we look …, unlike the preceding literature on macro determinants of international migration, we can identify the respective factors … gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …

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Diasporas

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar - 2009

Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, we …-capital structure of current migration flows. Our analysis exploits a bilateral data set on international migration by educational … various determinants of migration, we find diasporas increase migration flows, lower their average educational level and lead …

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Dissecting network externalities in international migration

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar - 2011

the net benefits of migration for future migrants by lowering assimilation costs ('self-selection' channel) and increase … externality is strong: the elasticity of migration flows to network size is around one. Second, only a quarter of this elasticity …

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Shaking Things Up: On the Stability of Risk and Time Preferences

Beine, Michel; Charness, Gary; Dupuy, Arnaud; Joxhe, … - 2020

We conduct a survey and incentivized lab-in-the-field experimental tasks in Tirana, Albania. While the original purpose of our study was to examine whether and how deep parameters such as time and risk preferences affect the intention to migrate, our study was transformed into a natural...

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Genetic Diversity and Performance: Evidence from Fooball Data

Beine, Michel; Peracchi, Silvia; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021

The theoretical impact of genetic diversity is ambiguous since it leads to costs and benefits at the collective level. In this paper, we assess empirically the connection between genetic diversity and the performance of sport teams. Focusing on football (soccer), we built a novel dataset of...

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