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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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Recently, there has been much discussion about replicability and credibility. By integrating the full research record …, increasing statistical power, reducing bias and enhancing credibility, meta-analysis is widely regarded as 'best evidence … research credibility …
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ineffective. We can rationalize this result with a novel model about the credibility of cheap-talk messages. This credibility is … credibility and show, both theoretically and experimentally, an interaction effect of network structure and communication …
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Response times are a simple low-cost indicator of the process of reasoning in strategic games. In this paper, we leverage the dynamic nature of response-time data from repeated strategic interactions to measure the strategic complexity of a situation by how long people think on average when they...
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In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models …
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We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...
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A central assumption of the canonical cheap talk literature is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Recent evidence from laboratory experiments with student subjects suggests, however, that while many people do report the payoff-maximizing...
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credibility revolution in empirical work can be traced to the rise of a design-based approach that emphasizes the identification … their prima facie credibility and by the attention investigators devote to making the case for a causal interpretation of …
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We assess alternative research designs for minimum wage studies. States in the U.S. with larger minimum wage increases differ from others in business cycle severity, increased inequality and polarization, political economy, and regional distribution. The resulting time-varying heterogeneity...
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brought about by the "credibility revolution," and the scientific value that follows from grounding estimation and … interpretation in economic theory. We discuss a menu of commonly employed partial equilibrium approaches to the identification of … case for a specific causal interpretation given the relevant economic theory, the data, the institutional context and the …
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