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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014982
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780463
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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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Economists in the Pits?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2021
Academic economists today are caught in a "Publication Impossibility Theorem System" or PITS. To further their careers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316386
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040007
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General Equilibrium with Contracts
Kwon, Suehyun - 2017
This paper studies general equilibrium when workers in the economy are also consumers of final goods. Once a firm and a worker are matched, there is a standard moral hazard problem. However, the firm's profit depends on the price of the good the worker produces, and the price is determined by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964063
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The Political Economy of Mitigation and Adaptation
Habla, Wolfgang - 2016
In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change have differential fiscal impacts. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a greater extent the more distortionary the tax system is. In an OLG model with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997332
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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 … overall ranking of economists based on RePEc data … database in economic sciences containing 33 different indicators for more than 30,000 economists. Based on this bibliographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112601