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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700543
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398921
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806044
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003720566
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Panel unit root tests in the presence of a multifactor error structure
Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630712
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437910
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Recent trends in co-authorship in economics : evidence from RePEc
Rath, Katharina; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2015
This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309542
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370176
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Taking the temperature : a meta-ranking of economics journals
Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2016
We construct a meta-ranking of 315 economics journals based on 38 different individual rankings. Our ranking … lists. In our meta-ranking the top five journals are given by: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418008
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The political economy of mitigation and adaptation
Habla, Wolfgang; Roeder, Kerstin - 2016
In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change have differential fiscal impacts. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a greater extent the more distortionary the tax system is. In an OLG model with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418012