This note contains an empirical analysis of the decision of German‐speaking business scholars to boycott and opt out of the best known research ranking of business scholars, initiated and published by Germany's largest business daily, Handelsblatt. Our analysis indicates that scientists who...

This is paper analyses the interrelationship between perceived journal relevance and reputation. Based on a survey of 705 members of the German Economic Association, we find a strong interrelationship between journal reputation and relevance where a journal's perceived relevance has a stronger...

We analyze the behavior of 577 economics and law students in a simple binary trust experiment. While economists are both significantly less trusting and less trustworthy than law students, this difference is largely due to differences between female law and economics students. While female law...

This is the first paper that studies the causal effect of studying economics on subjective well being. Based on a survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields on individual life satisfaction. Controling for personal...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Die Ökonomik von Sport, Entertainment und Medien – ein Thema für das Forschungsseminar Radein? -- Teil I: Sportmärkte -- Zur Vergabe der Medienrechte in der Fußball-Bundesliga -- Ökonomische Fragen der Talentförderung im Fußball: Theorie, Praxis und empirische...

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Teil I. Staatliche Prozesssteuerung versus Ordnungsgestaltung in der Marktwirtschaft -- Ordnungstheorie versus Institutionenökonomik: Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten / Leschke, Martin / Thieme, H. Jörg -- Central Banks - from Overburdening to Decline? /...

Intro -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Teil I. Staatliche Prozesssteuerung versus Ordnungsgestaltung in der Marktwirtschaft -- Ordnungstheorie versus Institutionenökonomik: Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten -- Central Banks - from Overburdening to Decline? -- Politische Ökonomie der Energiewende:...