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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086604
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112601
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780463
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316653
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308568
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094667
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315592
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Goals and Rules in Central Bank Design
Walsh, Carl E. - 2015
Beginning with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act of 1989, central banking reforms have focused on assigning clear goals for which monetary policy authorities can be held accountable. Inflation targeting regimes provide examples of such goal-based policy frameworks. An alternative approach,...
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Measuring Alpha in the Fund Management Industry : Do Female Managers Perform Better?
Babalos, Vassilios - 2013
This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences. Fund performance is evaluated against funds' designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently with previous studies, no significant differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080505
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Ranking of VaR and ES Models : Performance in Developed and Emerging Markets
Zikovic, Sasa; Filer, Randall K. - 2021
An inherent problem with comparing and ranking competing Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected shortfall (ES) models is that they measure only a single realization of the underlying data generation process. The question is whether there is any significant statistical difference in the performance of...
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