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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...

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Financial contagion : evolutionary optimisation of a multinational agent-based model

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria (contributor); … - 2008

world. Unstable cross-market linkages during a crisis are referred to as financial contagion. We simulate crisis … to destabilise cross-market linkages. In the real world, such information would be extremely valuable in developing …

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Rating assignments : lessons from international banks

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Matousek, Roman; Stewart, Chris - 2009

This paper estimates ordered logit and probit regression models for bank ratings which also include a country index to capture country-specific variation. The empirical findings provide support to the hypothesis that the individual international bank ratings assigned by Fitch Ratings are...

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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...

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Awards in economics : towards a new field of inquiry

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009

Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards. However, little scientific attention has been devoted to them. This paper documents the prevalence of awards in the economics profession and analyzes the number and type of awards...

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Global and regional spillovers in emerging stock markets : a multivariate GARCH-in-mean analysis

Beirne, John; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2009

This paper examines global (mature market) and regional (emerging market) spillovers in local emerging stock markets. Tri-variate VAR GARCH(1,1)-in-mean models are estimated for 41 emerging market economies (EMEs) in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The models capture a range of...

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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 …

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World heritage: where are we? : an empirical analysis

Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2010

An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The … officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the … considered "balanced" from different points of view. It turns out that the World Heritage List is unbalanced with respect to a …

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World heritage list : does it make sense?

Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2010

The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World … excessive tourism, and in times of war or by terrorists. -- global public good ; World Heritage ; cultural certificates …

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Time-varying spot and futures oil price dynamics

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Ciferri, Davide; Girardi, … - 2010

We investigate the role of crude oil spot and futures prices in the process of price discovery by using a cost-of-carry model with an endogenous convenience yield and daily data over the period from January 1990 to December 2008. We provide evidence that futures markets play a more important...

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