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Citation Success Over Time: Theory or Empirics?

Johnston, David W.; Piatti, Marco; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2012

This study investigates the citation patterns of theoretical and empirical papers over a period of almost 30 years, while also exploring the determinants of citation success. The results indicate that empirical papers attract more citation success than theoretical studies. However, the pattern...

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The as-is journal review process: Let authors own their ideas

Tsang, Eric W. K.; Frey, Bruno S. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2006

Recently, the problems associated with the existing journal review process aroused discussions from seasoned management researchers, who have also made useful suggestions for improving the process. To complement these suggestions, we propose a more radical change: a manuscript should be reviewed...

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Withering Academia

Frey, Bruno S. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2010

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of "university", and inadequate organizational forms for modern...

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Using Financial Markets to Analyze History: The Case of the Second World War

Frey, Bruno S.; Waldenstrom, Daniel - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2007

A central aspect of historical research is to provide explanations for the causes and effects of events that occurred in the past, in particular the Second World War. History can be analyzed and explained from different perspectives. Two such perspectives are considered, the first being the...

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Glück ? die ökonomische Analyse

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2009

an economic analysis of happiness are shown and illustrated with two specific applications. The relationship between … the value of public goods. The short discussion of governmental ?happiness policy? from a constitutional viewpoint … suggests a comparative institutional analysis of subjective well-being. The happiness revolution in economics is only at its …

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Social Capital and Relative Income Concerns: Evidence from 26 Countries

Fischer, Justina A.V.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2007

Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individuals? attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, using the International Social Survey Programme 1998 data from 26 countries this paper investigates the impact of relative income on 14 measurements of social...

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Does Envy Destroy Social Fundamentals? The Impact of Relative Income Position on Social Capital

Fischer, Justina A.V.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2006

Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individual attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, this paper assesses such positional impact on social capital by applying 14 different measurements to International Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We...

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Should National Happiness be Maximized?

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2006

Cross-disciplinary ?happiness research? has made big progress in the measurement of individual welfare. This … development makes it tempting to pursue the old dream of maximizing aggregate happiness as a social welfare function. However, we … postulate that the appropriate approach is not to maximize aggregate happiness in seeking to improve outcomes by direct policy …

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Tullock Challenges: Happiness, Revolutions and Democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2011

typical "Tullock Challenges". The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second …

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Genes, Economics, and Happiness

Neve, Jan-Emmanuel De; Christakis, Nicholas A.; Fowler, … - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2010

Research on happiness has produced valuable insights into the sources of subjective well-being that are of importance … to economics. A major nding from this literature is that people exhibit a "baseline" level of happiness that shows … persistent strength over time. Here we explore the extent to which baseline happiness is in uenced by genetic variation. Using …

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