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

Rauber, Michael; Ursprung, Heinrich - CESifo - 2006

considerations can be used in evaluations of university departments in order to render the resulting rankings insensitive to the age …

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Academic Exclusion : Some Experiences

Hillman, Arye L.; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2021

We describe and compare the experiences of academic exclusion of Alexander Del Mar, J.A. Hobson, and Gordon Tullock. While aspects of the circumstances differed, a common element was academic exclusion because of challenges to mainstream views. Alexander Del Mar, J.A. Hobson, and Gordon Tullock...

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Do Rankings Reflect Research Quality?

Frey, Bruno S.; Rost, Katja - CESifo - 2008

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 is considered. Even quantity rankings are not objective; two citation rankings, based on different samples …

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Research Governance in Academia: Are there Alternatives to Academic Rankings?

Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2009

Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take … offers an alternative to the present regime of academic rankings. …

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Withering Academia?

Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2010

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania …, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …

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Economists in the PITS?

Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2009

Academic economists today are caught in a “Publication Impossibility Theorem System” or PITS. To further their careers …

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Combining "Real Effort" with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task

Gaechter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - CESifo - 2015

We introduce the “ball-catching task”, a novel computerized real effort task, which combines “real” efforts with induced material cost of effort. The central feature of the ball-catching task is that it allows researchers to manipulate the cost of effort function as well as the...

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Promotion Rat Race and Public Policy

Bjertnaes, Geir - CESifo - 2012

This study investigates whether excess effort to climb a career ladder justifies policy interventions. The answer depends on whether the government is able to levy a higher tax burden on career workers than on non-career workers. Both a tax on top income aimed at lowering the rewards of...

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American Idol: Should it be a Singing Contest or a Popularity Contest?

Amegashie, J. Atsu - CESifo - 2007

In the very popular FOX TV reality show, American Idol, the judges, who are presumably experts in evaluating singing effort, have no voting power when the field is narrowed to the top twenty-four contestants. It is only the votes of viewers that count. In the 2007 season of the show, one of the...

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Teams and Tournaments in Relational Contracts

Kvaløy, Ola; Olsen, Trond - CESifo - 2014

We analyze relational contracts for a set of agents when either (a) only aggregate output or (b) individual outputs are observable. A team incentive scheme, where each agent is paid a bonus for aggregate output above a threshold, is optimal in case (a). The team’s efficiency may increase...

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