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Philosophers and economists can agree on the intergenerational discount rate and climate policy paths
Nesje, Frikk; Drupp, Moritz A.; Freeman, Mark C.; … - 2022
The estimated values to society from long-term public projects, including climate change mitigation and infrastructure construction, are highly sensitive to the social discount rate (SDR) employed. Governmental guidance on social discounting has predominantly been based on input from expert...
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Superstar economists : coauthorship networks and research output
Hsieh, Chih-sheng; König, Michael D.; Liu, Xiaodong; … - 2018
institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …
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The cult of statistical significance
Krämer, Walter - 2010
This article takes issue with a recent book by Ziliak and McCloskey (2008) of the same title. Ziliak and McCloskey argue that statistical significance testing is a barrier rather than a booster for empirical research in many fields and should therefore be abandoned altogether. The present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732285
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Academics appreciate awards : a new aspect of incentives in research
Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009
This paper analyzes awards as a means of motivation prevalent in the scientific community, but so far neglected in the economic literature on incentives, and discusses their relationship to monetary compensation. Awards are better suited than performance pay to reward scientific tasks, which are...
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Reactivity in economic science
Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a … social science, namely reactivity, i.e. human beings systematically respond to economic data, and in particular to …: Happiness policy, World Heritage policy, and Science policy. …
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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 …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 …
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What can economists learn from happiness research?
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001
happiness research is able to contribute important insights for economics. We report how the economic variables income … some of the consequences for economic policy and for economic theory. …
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Optimal asset allocation with factor models for large portfolios
Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper characterizes the asymptotic behaviour, as the number of assets gets arbitrarily large, of the portfolio weights for the class of tangency portfolios belonging to the Markowitz paradigm. It is assumed that the joint distribution of asset returns is characterized by a general factor...
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Panel unit root tests in the presence of a multifactor error structure
Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor);  … - 2008
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Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2021
Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this corpus of collectables. For the observation period...
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