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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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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...

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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 …

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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 economics of copyright in the digital age

Peukert, Christian; Windisch, Margaritha - 2023

economics of copyright in the digital age, with a particular focus on the available empirical evidence. First, we discuss the … legal foundations of the copyright system and developments of length and scope throughout the era of digitization. Second …

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Buyer Uncertainty about Seller Capacity: Causes, Consequences, and a Partial Solution

Horton, John J. - 2018

Employers in an online labor market often pursue workers with little capacity to take on more work. The pursuit of low-capacity workers is consequential, as these workers are more likely to reject employer inquires, causing a reduction in the probability a job opening is ultimately filled. In an...

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Honesty in the digital age

Cohn, Alain; Gesche, Tobias; Maréchal, Michel André - 2018

Modern communication technologies enable efficient exchange of information, but often sacrifice direct human interaction inherent in more traditional forms of communication. This raises the question of whether the lack of personal interaction induces individuals to exploit informational...

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British stock market, BREXIT and media sentiments - a big data analysis

Basak, Gopal Krishna; Pranab Kumar Das; Marjit, Sugata; … - 2019

In this paper we show, using a Machine Learning Framework and utilising a substantial corpus of media articles on Brexit, confirmed evidence of co-integration and causality between the ensuing media sentiments and British currency. The novel contribution of this paper is that along with...

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The diffusion of technological progress in ICT

Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2020

We study whether technology gains in sectors related to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) increase productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative price of ICT goods and services in a structural VAR...

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Honesty in virtual communication

Nieken, Petra; Walther, Sven - 2024

Remote work arrangements and increased virtual communication are commonplace. Particularly in organizations, virtual communication has become an essential tool for collaboration and exchanging information. Virtual communication channels, such as text or video messages, provide different levels...

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