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How to measure research efficiency in higher education? : research grants vs. publication output
Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2018
An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853185
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Does competition justify inequality?
Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - 2015
Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can have severe economic consequences, as they may cause counterproductive behavior such as rulebook slowdowns or quality shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405188
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Modelling economic impacts of alternative international climate policy architectures : a quantitative and comparative assessment of architectures for agreement
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Sgobbi, Alessandra; … - 2008
successors to the Kyoto protocol are assessed according to four criteria: economic efficiency; environmental effectiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763299
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Taxes and the efficiency costs of capital distortions
Weichenrieder, Alfons J. (contributor);  … - 2008
political debate. At the same time, the literature is surprisingly silent about the magnitude of possible efficiency costs of a … departure from tax neutrality. Against this background, the present paper discusses the theory of capital structure and provides … backof-the-envelope calculations of the possible efficiency cost of a tax distortion of the debtequity decision. -- Debt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771865
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Internationally coordinated emission permit policies : an option for withdrawers from the Kyoto protocol?
Bednar-Friedl, Birgit; Farmer, Karl - 2009
This paper investigates the welfare costs of unilateral versus internationally coordinated emission permit policies in a two-country overlapping generations model with producer carbon emissions. We show that, for a net foreign debtor country, the domestic welfare costs of a unilateral domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882562
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Optimal liability sharing and court errors : an exploratory analysis
Boyer, Marcel; Porrini, Donatella - 2010
efficiency of the courts in avoiding Type I (finding an innocent firm guilty of inappropriate care) and Type II (finding a guilty … indicate that an increase in the efficiency of the court system in avoiding errors raises safety care levels, thereby reducing …] share for firms [financiers] as well as a lower standard level of care. -- environmental policy ; court efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974501
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What should we expect from innovation? : a model-based assessment of the environmental and mitigation cost implications of climate-related R&D
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - 2010
complement carbon pricing (taxes or permit trading) and improve the economic efficiency of a mitigation policy package? To answer … temperature. The efficiency gains of combining innovation and carbon pricing policies are found to reach about 10% for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003949084
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Macroeconomic consequences of distributional conflicts
Schäfer, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498586
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Inefficient group organization as optimal adaption to dominant environments
Kolmar, Martin; Wagener, Andreas - 2010
Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008653415
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Illiquidity and under-valuation of firms
Gale, Douglas; Gottardi, Piero - 2009
restore the efficiency of equilibria. -- illiquid markets ; default ; incomplete markets ; price distortions ; inefficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923631