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Images say more than just words : effectiveness of visual and text communication in dispelling the rent-control misconception
Brandts, Jordi; Busom Piquer, Isabel; Lopez-Mayan, Cristina - 2023
interventions. Our research shows that visual communication effectively reduces the gap between scientific economic knowledge and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309583
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Political economists are neither selfish nor indoctrinated
Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2001
Most professional economists believe that economists in general are more selfish than other persons and that this greater selfishness is due to economics education. This paper offers empirical evidence against this widely held belief. Using a unique data set about giving behavior in connection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398894
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Do economic policymakers practice what they preach? : the case of pension decisions
Dahan, Momi; Kogut, Tehila; Shalem, Moshe - 2009
This paper examines whether policymakers, economists at the Israeli Finance Ministry, act in their personal pension decisions in accordance with the rational behaviour assumptions underlying the pension policies they advance. We find that while economists' decisions regarding three other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883889
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Monetary persistence and the labor market : a new perspective
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010
In this paper we propose a novel way to model the labor market in the context of a New-Keynesian general equilibrium model, incorporating labor market frictions in the form of hiring and firing costs. We show that such a model is able to replicate many important stylized facts of the business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937114
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A decade of editing the European Economic Review
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Gal-Or, Esther; Thorvaldur Gylfason; … - 2011
This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we worked as an editorial team, the central role of the editorial office manager, how we managed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375710
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Academic exclusion : some experiences
Hillman, Arye L.; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2016
We describe and compare the experiences of academic exclusion of Alexander Del Mar, J.A. Hobson, and Gordon Tullock. While aspects of the circumstances differed, a common element was academic exclusion because of challenges to mainstream views. Alexander Del Mar, J.A. Hobson, and Gordon Tullock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481205
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Academic publication uncertainty and publishing behavior : a game-theoretic perspective
Faria, João Ricardo; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2016
effects on quantity and quality of published research. A stylized differential Stackelberg game between journal editors and … citations and publications. However, it is not clear whether the quality of published research is enhanced. Thus, changes in … competition in publishing markets have the potential to exacerbate the quantity-quantity trade offs in research markets. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560859
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Normalization of citation impact in economics
Bornmann, Lutz; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2017
This study is intended to facilitate fair research evaluations in economics. Field- and timenormalization of citation … independent of research quality bias the results of citation analyses. We introduce two normalized indicators in economics, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700538
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A journal-based replication of "Being Chosen to Lead"
Drazen, Allan; Dreber, Anna; Ozbay, Erkut Y.; Snowberg, Erik - 2019
experimental research. Unfortunately, there exist no mechanisms to ensure replications are done. We propose such a mechanism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123043
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What's worth knowing? : economists' opinions about economics
Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter - 2021
We document economists' opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research … heterogeneous. Second, most researchers are dissatisfied with the status quo, in terms of both research topics and objectives. Third …, on average, respondents think that economic research should become more policy-relevant, multidisciplinary, risky and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597287