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Price discrimination in the subscription market for economics journals

Zheng, Yuqing; Kaiser, Harry M. - In: Southern economic journal 79 (2012) 2, pp. 464-480

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A Walk on the Wild Side : 'Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations

Bagues, Manuel - 2017

In recent years the academic world has experienced a mushrooming of journals that falsely pretend to be legitimate academic outlets. We study this phenomenon using information from 46,000 researchers seeking promotion in Italian academia. About 5% of them have published in journals included in...

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The Effects of Website Provision on the Demand for German Women's Magazines

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2022

The effect of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines is analyzed using differentiated product demand models estimated on panel data that cover the period 1990 2000. Descriptive evidence on the magazines' website contents suggests that websites are used to provide...

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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics

Ellison, Glenn - 2010

A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...

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Fame and the Fortune of Academic Economists : How the Market Rewards Influential Research in Economics

Hilmer, Christiana E. - 2012

We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty-three large public universities in the United States. Using the Web of Science, we have identified the journal articles published by these scholars and the number of times each...

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Fame and the fortune of academic economists : how the market rewards influential research in economics

Hilmer, Michael J.; Ransom, Michael R.; Hilmer, … - In: Southern economic journal 82 (2015) 2, pp. 430-452

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The State of Corporate Governance Research

Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2011

This paper, which introduces the special issue on corporate governance co-sponsored by the Review of Financial Studies and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), reviews and comments on the state of corporate governance research. The special issue features seven papers on corporate...

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Time-Varying Fund Manager Skill

Kacperczyk, Marcin T. - 2011

Mutual fund managers can outperform the market by picking stocks or timing the market successfully. Previous work has estimated picking and timing skill, assuming that each manager is endowed with a fixed amount of each and found some evidence of picking skills and little evidence of timing...

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Mutual Fund Performance and the Incentive to Generate Alpha

Del Guercio, Diane - 2011

find that flows chase risk-adjusted returns, and that funds respond by investing more in active management. Importantly …

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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian … transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are … Poland and Lithuania operate with management practices that are only moderately worse than those of western European …

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