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Evaluation of Researchers : A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists
Rauber, Michael - 2006
academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the …
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Life Cycle and Cohort Productivity in Economic Research : The Case of Germany
Rauber, Michael - 2009
We examine the research productivity of German academic economists over their life cycles. It turns out that the career … life-cycles of younger German economists are hump-shaped and closely resemble the life cycles identified for U ….S. economists, whereas the life-cycles of older German economists are much flatter. Finally, we find that not only productivity, but …
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Do Rankings Reflect Research Quality?
Frey, Bruno S.; Rost, Katja - 2021
Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of...
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Lionel Robbins : A Methodological Reappraisal
Resende, Marcelo; Zeidan, Rodrigo M. - 2021
Lionel Robbins contributions are often discussed in terms of two main aspects. First, the delineation of the scope of economics in terms of decision making conditional on scarcity. Second, a more methodological concern with respect to scientific neutrality and the possibility of meaningful...
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Central Banking and Crisis Management from the Perspective of Austrian Business Cycle Theory
Schnabl, Gunther - 2016
The paper analyses the evolvement and effects of central bank crisis management since the mid 1980s based on a Hayek-Mises-Wicksell over-investment framework. It is shown that, given that the traditional transmission mechanism between monetary policy and consumer price inflation has collapsed,...
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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers … perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which …
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Recent Trends in Co-Authorship in Economics : Evidence from RePEc
Rath, Katharina - 2015
This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal articles we show that the average number of authors per article has increased over the last years. This process is likely to be continued in the future. In a regression analysis...
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Ranking Economists on the Basis of Many Indicators : An Alternative Approach Using RePEc Data
Seiler, Christian - 2012
database in economic sciences containing 33 different indicators for more than 30,000 economists. Based on this bibliographic … overall ranking of economists based on RePEc data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112601
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Ideology and Dissent Among Economists : The Joint Economic Forecast of German Economic Research Institutes
Ngo, Ha Quyen - 2015
Economists, and also economic research institutes, differ in their attitudes towards desirability of economic policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020572
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Happiness of Economists
Feld, Lars P. - 2014
We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey … of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively … pressure in recent years is positively related to economists' life satisfaction. An explanation is that economists have …
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