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The essential ranking of decision rules in small panels of experts
Karotkin, Drora; Nitsan, Shemuʾel; Paroush, Jacob - 1988
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Ranking income distributions
Shorrocks, Anthony F. - 1981
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Oligopoly and the ranking of optimal and maximum revenue tariffs
Hwang, Hong - 1983
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Inference on the maximal rank of time-varying covariance matrices using high-frequency data
Reiß, Markus; Winkelmann, Lars - 2021
We study the rank of the instantaneous or spot covariance matrix Σ(t) of a multidimensional continuous semi-martingale X(t). Given highfrequency observations X(i=n), i = 0; : : : ;n, we test the null hypothesis rank (Σ(t)) ≤ r for all t against local alternatives where the average (r + 1)st...
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Class rank and long-run outcomes
Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018
This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...
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Top of the class : the importance of ordinal rank
Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019 - This version: June 2019
This paper establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has lasting impacts on secondary school achievement that are independent of underlying ability. Using data on the universe of English school students, we exploit naturally occurring...
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Do performance ranks increase productivity? : evidence from a field experiment
Ashraf, Anik - 2019
Can a firm increase its workers' eff ort by introducing competition through performance-based ranking? On one hand such ranking can increase eff ort because of individuals' desire for status from high ranks, but on the other, it can demotivate them or make them wary of outperforming peers. This...
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Hochschulranglisten als Qualitätsindikatoren im Wettbewerb der Hochschulen
Büttner, Thiess - 2002
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An information metric of similarity of expectations
Cotter, Kevin D. - 1983
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On the exposure of insurance companies to sovereign risk : portfolio investments and market forces
Düll, Robert; König, Felix; Ohls, Jana - 2015
risk. This paper focuses on the transmission of sovereign risk to insurance companies as some of the largest institutional … investors in the sovereign bond market. We use a firm level panel dataset that covers large insurance companies, banks and non … reflected in current insurance regulation (incl. upcoming Solvency II in Europe). …
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