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The benefits of being economics professor A (and not Z)

Praag, Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2007

Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...

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The golden age of Nobel economists

Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 1997

average creative age of Nobel economists is slightly belowthat of laureates in physics, and considerably younger than that of … breeding ground for original economists. Furthermore,most fundamental work has been written alone and this finding contrasts …

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Axiomatizations of a positional power score and measure for hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2008

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the actors. While such an analysis informs us about...

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On socio-economic roles and specialization

Gilles, Robert Paul; Lazarova, Emiliya A.; Ruys, Pieter … - 2006

Xiaokai Yang's theory of economic specialization under increasing returns to scale is a formal development of the fundamental Smith-Young theorem on the extent of the market and the social division of labor. In this theory specialization and, thus, the social division of labor is firmly embedded...

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Members, joiners, free-riders, supporters

Ansink, Erik; Withagen, Cees - 2015

We augment the standard cartel formation game from non-cooperative coalition theory, often applied in the context of international environmental agreements on climate change, with the possibility that singletons support coalition formation without becoming coalition members themselves. Rather,...

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Common pool resources : is there support for conservationists?

Ansink, Erik; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2018

may want to support the coalition with a transfer payment in order to set incentives for others to join. We find that the …

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Agreeing on public goods or bads

Ansink, Erik; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2023

Without regulation or agreement, public goods are underprovided and public bads are overprovided. Both problems are usually seen as flip sides of the same coin. In this paper we examine a situation where a public good is good for some agents but bad for others, and this preference is endogenous...

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The benefits of being economics professor A (and not Z)

Praag, Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2007

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Acquiring knowledge over the economist’s lifetime

Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 1997

In this paper the reading behaviour of economists is examined to see whether particular typesof knowledge - basic and … literature declines with three to fourpercent per year of experience, although researchers and economists with a … mathematicalbackground start with a higher initial stock of knowledge of this type of literature. Businessand government economists …

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Evaluation of development policy : treatment versus program effects

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2009

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