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Inside the White Box : Unpacking the Determinants of Quality and Vertical Specialization

Jaimovich, Esteban; Madzharova, Boryana; Merella, Vincenzo - 2021

This paper explores patterns of quality differentiation and specialization relying on model-level panel data of retail sales and prices of refrigerators across 23 countries in the European Union. Unlike customs data aggregated at the product category, typically used in the literature,...

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Division of Labor and the Organization of Knowledge in Production : A Laboratory Experiment

Klockmann, Victor; Schenk, Alicia von; Siemens, … - 2021

Following Garicano (2000), we consider groups whose members decide what knowledge to acquire and how to use this knowledge in production. If efficient production requires common knowledge, all group members should become workers and acquire common knowledge. But if efficient production requires...

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Vertical Specialization, International Task Fragmentation, and Convergence

Marjit, Sugata; Oladi, Reza - 2021

In this paper, we construct an elaborate general equilibrium model with a continuum of production fragments for an intermediate good, then embed it in a growth model to address the effects of global production fragmentation, vertical specialization and trade on growth and inequality for a small...

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Did COVID-19 Affect the Division of Labor within the Household? Evidence from Two Waves of the Pandemic in Italy

Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; Profeta, Paola; … - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on families’ lives, with parents all over the world struggling to meet the increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by women, particularly in countries with a traditionally...

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The Influence of COVID-19 on Publications in Economics : Bibliometric Evidence from Five Working Paper Series

Bürgi, Constantin; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2022

We compare Covid-related working papers in economics to non-Covid-related working papers in four dimensions. Based on …

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Superstar Economists : Coauthorship Networks and Research Output

Hsieh, Chih-sheng - 2019

institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …

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What's Worth Knowing? Economists' Opinions About Economics

Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter - 2021

economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer …

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What is the Benefit from Publishing a Working Paper in a Journal in Terms of Citations? Evidence from Economics

Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bürgi, Constantin - 2021

Many papers in economics that are published in peer reviewed journals are initially released in widely circulated … comprises about 28.000 working papers from four major working paper series in economics. Using panel data methods, we show that …

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Alphabetized Co-Authorship in Economics Reconsidered

Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2021

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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Classifying Top Economists Using Archetypoid Analysis

Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2021

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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