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Athey, Susan - 2010

This paper considers a dynamic model of the evolution of open source software projects, focusing on the evolution of quality, contributing programmers, and users who contribute customer support to other users. Programmers who have used open source software are motivated by reciprocal altruism to...

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Evaluation of Researchers : A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists

Rauber, Michael - 2006

In this paper we argue that any meaningful bibliometric evaluation of researchers needs to take into account that …

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Ranking Economists on the Basis of Many Indicators : An Alternative Approach Using RePEc Data

Seiler, Christian - 2012

In socio-economic sciences the RePEc network (Research Papers in Economics) has become an essential source for the gathering and the spread of both existing and new economic research. Furthermore, it is currently the largest bibliometric database in economic sciences containing 33 different...

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Does the Market Value Value-Added? Evidence from Housing Prices after a Public Release of School and Teacher Value-Added

Imberman, Scott A. - 2013

Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have …

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EU Banks Rating Assignments : Is there Heterogeneity between New and Old Member Countries?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether “old” and “new” EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether “new” ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than...

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Talk or Text? Evaluating Response Rates by Remote Survey Method during COVID-19

Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte, Lelys; Dominguez-Rivera, Patricio; … - 2022

Researchers and policy makers face significant challenges in selecting a method to conduct remote surveys, especially when collecting sensitive information or during turbulent life stages of hard-to-reach groups. In the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, we randomly selected about 600 adults in...

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Communicating Subjective Evaluations

Lang, Matthias - 2021

? Suppose a manager’s evaluation is private information. Justifying her evaluation is costly but limits the principal’s scope … for distorting her evaluation of the employee. I show that the manager justifies her evaluation if and only if the … employee’s performance was poor. The justification assures the employee that the manager has not distorted the evaluation …

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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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Outsourcing Cost and Tax Progression under Nash Wage Bargaining with Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2010

It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage … bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage … negative effect on outsourcing. …

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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2010

-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …

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