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We study the desirability of interventionist harmonization of legal standards across multiple, mutually interdependent jurisdictions which strive to adapt law to their local conditions as well as to synchronize it with other jurisdictions. In a setting where jurisdictions are privately informed...

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Schumacher, Julian; Trebesch, Christoph; Enderlein, Henrik - 2015

simple framework from the law and economics literature. …

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Recent trends in co-authorship in economics : evidence from RePEc

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This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …

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Simply a matter of luck & looks? : predicting elections when both the world economy and the psychology of faces count

Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I.; Alessie, Rob; … - 2014

Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...

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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 …

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Awards in economics : towards a new field of inquiry

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009

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 … profession and analyzes the number and type of awards received by the 1,200 leading economists included in Who's Who in Economics …

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How does the market use citation data? The Hirsch Index in Economics

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Lionel Robbins : a methodological reappraisal

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