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This paper investigates the efficiency of 188 economics departments around the world using data from RePEc. We go beyond the heavily used data envelopment analysis and utilize partial frontier analysis - specifically order-α and order-m - which addresses some of the drawbacks of the standard...
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Ranking methods are fundamental tools in many areas. Popular methods aggregate the statements of experts' in different … ways. As such, there are various reasonable ranking methods, each one of them more or less adapted to the environment under … applications. The method is illustrated for ranking economic journals. …
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It is well-known that the distribution of citations to articles in a journal is skewed. We ask whether journal rankings based on the impact factor are robust with respect to this fact. We exclude the most cited paper, the top 5 and 10 cited papers for 100 economics journals and recalculate the...
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An inherent problem with comparing and ranking competing Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected shortfall (ES) models is that … ranking and comparing the performance of VaR and ES models based on a nonparametric ANOVA test. The relative performance of …
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We solve the non-linear income tax program for a rank-dependent social welfare function à la Yaari, expressing the trade-off between size and inequality using the Gini or related families of positional indices. The key idea is that when agents optimize and absent bunching, ranks in the actual...
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this fact for economic equilibrium analysis. In particular, it examines how the ranking schemes applied by the distribution … technology affect the use of knowledge, and it then describes the characteristics of an optimal ranking scheme. The analysis is …
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This study investigates the influence of gender composition on allocation decisions involving a rank–inequality tradeoff. In a laboratory experiment, participants chose to either alleviate inequality by relinquishing their current relative rank or exacerbate inequality by maintaining their...
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. Specifically, the focus is on RePEc’s main author ranking, which aggregates 36 different rankings based on a range of criteria. The … paper first describes the logic behind the ranking and then presents some key descriptive statistics on the top 5% of … authors. Notably, the ranking is dominated by English-speaking authors, particularly those affiliated with institutions in the …
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This paper studies how a student’s ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank increases performance and the probability of choosing...
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Using a theoretical model where students care about achievement rank, I study effort choices in the classroom and show that rank concerns generate peer effects. The model’s key empirical prediction is that the effect on own achievement of increasing the dispersion in peer cost of effort is...
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