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International Trade in Natural Resources : Practice and Policy
Ruta, Michele - 2013
Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091204
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Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets : Panel Data Evidence on the Voracity Effect
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
This paper examines the effects that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price booms lead to a significant increase in net foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092044
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What's Left for the WTO?
Bown, Chad P. - 2016
Suppose that when addressing the question of “what's left for the WTO?,” negotiators relied not on the agenda established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify tariff negotiating priorities. This paper uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998702
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137445
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766974
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Gender and Competition : Evidence from Academic Promotions in France
Bosquet, Clément; Combes, Pierre-Philippe; … - 2021
for academic economists over the period 1991-2008 we find that, conditional on entering the competition, there is no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315669
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014982
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316452
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Political Capitalism : The Interaction between Income Inequality, Economic Freedom and Democracy
Krieger, Tim - 2016
distribution) when inequality is high. We argue that the latter finding corresponds to a system of political capitalism or captured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999751