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Monetary policy crisis management as a threat to economic order

Freytag, Andreas; Schnabl, Gunther - 2017

The paper analyses the effects of the monetary policy crisis management of the European Central Bank on the economic order of Germany. It is argued that in post-war Europe the German social market economy as designed by Eucken (1952) and Müller-Armack (1966) has been a core element of growth,...

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Ordoliberalism, pragmatism and the Eurozone crisis : how the German tradition shaped economic policy in Europe

Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2015 - This version: May 18, 2015

German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper analysis of ordoliberal thinking reveals that the...

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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...

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A structural topic model of the features and the cultural origins of the Baconian program

Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2017

We use machine-learning methods to study the features and origins of the Baconian program, a cultural and methodological paradigm viewed as providing the intellectual roots for modern economic growth. After building a machine-readable corpus of Bacon's works, we estimate a structural topic...

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Jean-Michel Grandmont : a forthcoming mind

Linnemer, Laurent; Visser, Michael S. - 2018

contributions to the fields of monetary economics, temporary equilibrium, business cycle theory, and aggregation of individual …

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Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? : lessons from ordoliberalism

Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2023

public choice and German ordoliberalism (and its source in the Freiburg School of Economics). We argue that the reception of … economics. The effects of rules and institutions and their working properties should be thoroughly analyzed empirically. The … role of ideas is important for the normative foundation of both public choice/ constitutional economics and ordoliberalism …

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The effects of professor gender on the post-graduation outcomes of female students

Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.; Rintala, Bryson M.; … - 2022

, among high-ability female students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of …

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Academics' attitudes toward engaging in public discussions : experimental evidence on the impact of engagement conditions

Püttmann, Vitus; Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021

Academics are increasingly expected to engage in public discussions. We study how engagement conditions affect academics’ engagement attitudes via a survey experiment among 4,091 tenured professors in Germany. Consistent with the crowding-out of intrinsic motivation, we find lesspositive...

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Nobel students beget nobel professors

Tol, Richard S. J. - 2022

nepotism. I construct the professor-student network for laureates of and candidates for the Nobel Prize in Economics. I study …It is unclear whether the hierarchy in the economics profession is the result of the agglomeration of excellence or of …

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Students are almost as effective as professors in university teaching

Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2019

In a previous paper, we have shown that academic rank is largely unrelated to tutorial teaching effectiveness. In this paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost as effective as senior instructors, and we produce...

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