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There are several empirical studies of ex post analysis of citations in academia. There is no ex ante analysis of citations. I consider a game-theoretic model of a contest between scholars on the basis of two widely-used measures of citations (i.e., the h-index and total citation count) and the...
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Iron Curtain and Big Data are two words usually used to denote completely two different eras. Yet, the context the former offers and the rich data source the latter provides, enable the causal identification of the effect of networks on migration. Academics in countries behind the Iron Curtain...
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This paper provides an overview of RePEc a digital platform for the dissemination of research in economics. 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...
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and Wiley on the other side facilitate easy open access publishing for researchers located in Germany. We use a dataset of … eligible scientists’ choice of publication outlet. We find that even in the short period following the conclusion of these DEAL …
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Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth … that commenced around 2005. The successful integration of five million predominantly low-productivity workers into the … labor market induced an attenuating effect on productivity growth. This does not explain the slowdown entirely, however. As …
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rare and contradictory. A uniquely rich industry-level dataset for Germany is used in this paper to test whether large … business size in an industry fosters growth in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). The results suggest that the overall …
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-access agreements so that researchers in Germany are eligible to publish articles open-access without additional charges for them. Using …
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In statistics, samples are drawn from a population in a data-generating process (DGP). Standard errors measure the uncertainty in sample estimates of population parameters. In science, evidence is generated to test hypotheses in an evidence-generating process (EGP). We claim that EGP variation...
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build as readily on the work of Chinese researchers, relative to the work of other foreign scientists, even in a setting … where Chinese scientists have long excelled …
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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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