Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This … ́subsequent research activity and status compared to a synthetic control group of non-recipient scholars with similar previous … research performance. We find evidence of positive incentive and status effects that raise both productivity and citation …

We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can … possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … the RePEc Author Service. We rank the authors and research institutions according to their contribution to the aggregate …

This paper presents a micro data approach to the identification of credit crunches. Using a survey among German firms … panel-data models …

of Economic Research web site …We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003 …-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files differ by as much as 15% from counts in published data tables. Moreover, an …

subsequent recession in Germany even though it was by far not the main driver. -- oil price shock ; VAR model ; micro data …In this paper we challenge the view that the oil price has lost its influence on economic activity after the mid-1980s … firm level analysis for which we exploit a unique microeconomic data set for Germany. Inspired by this finding, we …

micro-data gathered from tax returns to assess average tax rates on labour, capital and transfer income and presents some …Measuring effective tax rates using tax revenue data is attractive, given that revenues collected capture the net … effect of tax provisions and taxpayer behaviour that are difficult to model. Yet reliance on aggregate tax and income data …

We assess empirically the micro-foundations of producers' sticky pricing behaviour. The intertemporal profit function …

durations found in the micro-data to generalized Taylor and Calvo models of time-dependent pricing. We illustrate the approach … with the UK micro CPI data for 2006-2009, and employ the pricing models in a simple macromodel. We find that the …