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Awards in economics : towards a new field of inquiry
Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009
. First steps towards integrating awards into economic theory are undertaken. -- Awards ; non-monetary incentives ; economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806044
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Space and growth
Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004
literature. In contrast, studies on relative location tend to be weakly linked to theory, but apply relatively sophisticated … appropriateness of such models, and identify areas of potential concern. The rather weak linkage between theory and operational models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342567
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Growth and inequality : a meta-analysis
Dominicis, Laura de; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, … - 2006
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and empirical approaches have produced ambiguous results on sign and size of this relationship. Although there is a considerable part of the literature that considers inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349190
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The impact of uncertainty on investment : a meta-analysis
Koetse, Mark J.; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond … - 2006
In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since the outcomes of primary studies are largely incomparable with respect to the magnitude of the effect, our analysis focuses on the direction and statistical significance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349194
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Global credit risk : world, country and industry factors
Schwaab, Bernd; Koopman, Siem Jan; Lucas, André - 2015
area sovereign debt crises. We find that macro and default-specific world factors are a primary source of default …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484886
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Persistence in the market risk premium : evidence across countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; … - 2020
This paper provides evidence on the degree of persistence of one of the key components of the CAPM, namely the market risk premium, as well as its volatility. The analysis applies fractional integration methods to data for the US, Germany and Japan, and for robustness purposes considers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199998
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Measuring persistence of the world population : a fractional integration approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Infante, Juan; Rio, Marta del; … - 2023
world population over the period 1800-2016. The analysis is carried out for the original series, and also for its log …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013550205
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Do rankings reflect research quality?
Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Rost, Katja (contributor) - 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, which should be the essence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779460
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Politicians : be killed or survive
Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Torgler, Benno (contributor) - 2008
In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003791827
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Making world heritage truly global : the culture certificate scheme
Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2009
Culture has attributes of a global public good that needs to be preserved for mankind as a whole. World Culture … Certificates are proposed to efficiently preserve World Heritage. The community of nations has to agree on the Global Heritage List … and how much each nation is to contribute to that purpose. Each World Heritage site conserved is acknowledged through the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872401