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Demange, Gabrielle - 2021

Ranking methods are fundamental tools in many areas. Popular methods aggregate the statements of 'experts' in different … ways. As such, there are various reasonable ranking methods, each one of them more or less adapted to the environment under … applications. The method is illustrated for ranking economic journals …

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Heterogeneous Peer Effects and Rank Concerns : Theory and Evidence

Tincani, Michela - 2017

Mathematics and Spanish test scores. To be able to test the theory, I develop a novel nonlinear difference-in-differences model …

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

Seiler, Christian - 2012

rankings can be biased due to the employed ranking methodology. In order to select key indicators describing and assessing … overall ranking of economists based on RePEc data …

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The Limits of Trust in Economic Transactions - Investigations of Perfect Reputation Systems

Bolton, Gary E.; Ockenfels, Axel - 2021

As the Internet economy has grown, so too has the need for trust. A degree of trust is a critical ingredient in virtually all economic relationships, Internet or otherwise. Every day we choose to trust plumbers, doctors, employers, employees, teachers, airlines, and others. The need for trust...

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Offshoring along the Production Chain

Harms, Philipp - 2009

Recent contributions on off shoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production...

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Noblesse Oblige? Determinants of Survival in a Life and Death Situation

Frey, Bruno S. - 2008

This paper explores the determinants of survival in a life-and-death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested in seeing whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...

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Levelized Product Cost : Concept and Decision Relevance

Reichelstein, Stefan J. - 2014

This paper examines a life-cycle cost concept that applies to both manufacturing and service industries in which upfront capacity investments are essential. Borrowing from the energy literature, we refer to this cost measure as the levelized product cost (LC). Per unit of output, the levelized...

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Homo Moralis : Personal Characteristics, Institutions, and Moral Decision-Making

Deckers, Thomas - 2016

institutions compared to situations of individual decision-making. Intelligence, female gender, and the existence of siblings …

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Excessive Herding in the Laboratory : The Role of Intuitive Judgments

March, Christoph - 2018

We designed four observational learning experiments to identify the key channels that, along with Bayes-rational inferences, drive herd behavior. In Experiment 1, unobserved, whose actions remain private, learn from the public actions made in turn by subjects endowed with private signals of...

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Decision Initiation, Decision Implementation, and the Allocation of Decision Rights

Sloof, Randolph; von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2021

implemented. Fama & Jensen (1983) argue that the same members of many organization are often responsible for both decision … to express their discontent with the allocation of decision rights. How decisions come about also affects implementation …

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