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Political economists are neither selfish nor indoctrinated
Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2001
particular behavior of economists can be explained by a selection effect. …Most professional economists believe that economists in general are more selfish than other persons and that this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398894
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Moral property rights in bargaining
Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - 2002
In many business transactions, in labor-management relations, in international conflicts, and welfare state reforms claims acquired in the past seem to create strong entitlements that shape current negotiations. Despite their importance, the role of entitlements in negotiations has not received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409699
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422534
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Justice delayed is assimilation denied : rightwing terror, fear and social assimilation of Turkish immigrants in Germany
Deole, Sumit S. - 2018
In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Further investigations implicated the group in previously unexplained murders of mostly ethnically Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011901768
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Archetypal scientists
Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2012
,083 economists obtained from the RePEc database and identify six archetypes. These are mainly characterized by ratios of published …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009682823
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Getting lucky : the long-term consequences of exam luck
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022
This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the end of high school. Lucky students take exams in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817815
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What makes a price fair? : an experimental study of transaction experience and endogenous fairnesss views
Herz, Holger; Taubinsky, Dmitry - 2016
People's fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet … arising from previous transactions play an important role in shaping perceptions of fairness. Buyers used to high market … two classes of models of path-dependent fairness preferences - either based on endogenous fairness reference points or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482926
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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative survey
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2003
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and selfselection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
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Ranking economists on the basis of many indicators : an alternative approach using RePEc data
Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2011
database in economic sciences containing 33 different indicators for more than 30,000 economists. Based on this bibliographic … overall ranking of economists based on RePEc data. -- RePEc ; ranking aggregation ; principal components analysis ; economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489290
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Recent trends in co-authorship in economics : evidence from RePEc
Rath, Katharina; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2015
This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal articles we show that the average number of authors per article has increased over the last years. This process is likely to be continued in the future. In a regression analysis...
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