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A decade of editing the European economic review
Eckstein, Zvi; Gal-Or, Esther; Gylfason, Thorvaldur; … - 2011
few anecdotes to illustrate the work of an academic journal editor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280668
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How should peer-review panels behave?
Sgroi, Daniel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012
Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK's new Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer-review panels will be provided with information on publications and citations. This paper suggests a way in which panels could choose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291310
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A suggested method for the measurement of world leading research: (illustrated with data on economics)
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009
method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics. Of 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles, the UK produced 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269637
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An examination of the reliability of prestigious scholarly journals: evidence and implications for decision-makers
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2006
publish the best article in an issue of a medium-quality journal like the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics than to … because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X. Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in … quality in a mechanical way by using journal prestige ratings. The results in this paper suggest that such tendencies are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267414
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A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review
Eckstein, Zvi; Gal-Or, Esther; Gylfason, Thorvaldur; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
few anecdotes to illustrate the work of an academic journal editor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323387
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Publishing trends in economics across colleges and universities, 1991 - 2007
Winkler, Anne E.; Levin, Sharon G.; Stephan, Paula E.; … - 2011
There is good reason to think that non-elite programs in economics may be producing relatively more research than in … productivity in economics (and business) using data from the Web of Science (Knowledge) for a broad set of institutions both elite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286889
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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269838
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Measuring unemployment insurance generosity
Pallage, Stéphane; Scruggs, Lyle; Zimmermann, Christian - 2008
In this paper, we develop a methodology to summarize the various policy parameters of an unemployment insurance scheme into a single generosity parameter. Unemployment insurance policies are multdimensional objects. They are typically defined by waiting periods, eligibility duration, benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269048
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Job competition and the wage curve
Longhi, Simonetta - 2010
The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269699
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An innovation index based on knowledge capital investment: definition and results for the UK market sector
Clayton, Tony; Dal Borgo, Mariela; Haskel, Jonathan - 2009
We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we could get more GDP without innovation by simply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271890