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Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

There is a fundamental difference between the natural and the social sciences due to reactivity. This difference remains even in the age of Artificially Intelligent Learning Machines and Big Data. Many academic economists take it as a matter of course that economics should become a natural...

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Omnimetrics and awards

Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

The digital revolution has led to a quantification of ever more areas of human life and society. At the same time, there is an explosion of the number of awards, which by their very nature are based on non-quantified performance. Will quantification take over completely, leading to...

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Genes, economics, and happiness

De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Fowler, James H.; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

Research on happiness has produced valuable insights into the sources of subjective well-being. A major finding from this literature is that people exhibit a "baseline" happiness that shows persistent strength over time, and twin studies have shown that genes play a significant role in...

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Calculating tragedy : assessing the costs of terrorism

Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Lüchinger, Simon (contributor) - 2004

The trends and consequences of terrorist activities are often captured by counting the number of incidents and casualties. More recently, the effects of terrorist acts on various aspects of the economy have been analyzed. These costs are surveyed and put in perspective. As economic consequences...

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A backward looking measure of the effective marginal tax burden on investment

Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Becker, Johannes (contributor) - 2004

Forward looking measures like the well-known effective marginal tax rate developed by King and Fullerton (1984) are often criticized for not taking into account the complexity of the tax law. This paper derives a method of evaluating this kind of measure and of quantifying the bias resulting...

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Yes, managers should be paid like bureaucrats

Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Osterloh, Margit (contributor) - 2005

. Agency theory’s insistence on linking the compensation of managers and directors as closely as possible to firm performance …

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Knight fever : towards an economics of awards

Frey, Bruno S. (contributor) - 2005

Awards in the form of orders, medals, decorations and titles are ubiquitous in monarchies and republics, private organizations, not-for-profit and profit-oriented firms. Nevertheless, economists have disregarded this kind of non-material extrinsic incentive. The demand for awards relies on an...

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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...

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Pay as you go : a new proposal for museum pricing

Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2010

Museums have many different goals beyond efficiency such as social equity, financial revenue, attracting donors and gaining international, regional or local prestige. Various pricing schemes are being discussed with the aim of reaching these goals. The classical ones are entry prices and free...

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Community Enterprises : an institutional innovation

Frey, Bruno S.; Luethi, Roger; Osterloh, Margit - 2011

Management research has long focused on the theory of the firm, studying for-profit organizations that produce … organizational theory, innovation economics, and industrial organization should therefore be critically examined. -- theory of the … firm ; organization theory ; for-profit firms ; community enterprise ; Wikipedia …

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