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Energy Efficiency in General Equilibrium with Input-Output Linkages

Blackburn, Christopher J. - 2020

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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Learning from Law Enforcement

Dusek, Libor - 2020

This paper studies how punishment for past offenses affects future compliance behavior and isolates deterrence effects mediated by learning. Using administrative data from speed cameras that capture the full driving histories of more than a million cars over several years, we evaluate responses...

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Spite in Litigation

Mill, Wladislaw; Stäbler, Jonathan - 2023

This paper studies how litigation and settlement behavior is affected by agents motivated by spiteful preferences under the American and the English fee-shifting rule. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures and settlement requests are higher for more spiteful...

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Rules of proof, courts, and incentives

Demougin, Dominique M.; Fluet, Claude - 2007

We analyze the design of legal principles and procedures for court decision-making in civil litigation. The objective is the provision of appropriate incentives for potential tort-feasors to exert care, when evidence about care is imperfect and may be distorted by the parties. Efficiency is...

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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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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; 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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