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Industrial activity periodically experiences breakthrough innovations in energy efficiency, but the estimated impacts of these innovations on aggregate energy use are highly varied. We develop a general equilibrium model to investigate whether this variation is determined by the structure of the...
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institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Using more than 120,000 multi-authored articles from the Web of Science economics … subject category, we demonstrate first that the alphabetization rate in economics has declined over the last decade. Second …, we find no statistically significant relationship between alphabetized co-authorship and citations in economics using six …
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Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach allows us to identify typical characteristics of extreme (archetypal) values in a multivariate data set. In contrast to its predecessor, the archetypal analysis, archetypoids...
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economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer …
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journal? We show empirically that the answer is yes, using 3167 articles published in five of the top journals in economics …
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We compare Covid-related working papers in economics to non-Covid-related working papers in four dimensions. Based on …
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This paper considers a dynamic model of the evolution of open source software projects, focusing on the evolution of quality, contributing programmers, and users who contribute customer support to other users. Programmers who have used open source software are motivated by reciprocal altruism to...
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That individuals contribute in social dilemma interactions even when contributing is costly is a well-established observation in the experimental literature. Since a contributor is always strictly worse off than a non-contributor the question is raised if an intrinsic motivation to contribute...
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Corporate success stories often resemble a snowball. We show how initial luck in hiring talented people, the resulting technological advantage, superior corporate culture, and statusseeking by workers and by consumers can make small initial differences generate large differences over time.
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