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Rankings games
Frey, Bruno S.; Osterloh, Margit - 2011
the taste for science by a taste for publication. We suggest as alternatives careful selection and socialization of …Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended … scholars, supplemented by periodic self-evaluations and awards. Neither should rankings be a basis for the distributions of …
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Input control and random choice: Improving the selection process for journal articles
Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - 2011
The process by which scholarly papers are selected for publication in a journal is faced with serious problems. The referees rarely agree and often are biased. This paper discusses two alternative measures to evaluate scholars. The first alternative suggests input control. The second one...
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Let's Talk It Over: Communication and Coordination in Teams
Dietrichson, Jens; Gudmundsson, Jens; Jochem, Torsten - 2018
Collaboration in teams in which each member's output is critical to the overall success present organizations with difficult coordination problems. We develop a model and run simulations to analyze how costly communication affects team coordination and output efficiency. We show that absent any...
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The Journal Rankings of Central Banks
Kohlscheen, Emanuel - 2011
authorities than the academic journal rankings currently in vogue. We report individual country rankings as well as the global … rankings. While important regional differences emerge, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the American Economic Review, the …
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Cheap search, picky workers? Evidence from a field experiment
Mayr, Harald - 2022
Search frictions impede the labor market. Despite this indisputable fact, it is a priori unclear how job search costs affect search duration and unemployment: lower search costs make it easier to find a job, reducing search duration and unemployment, but may also increase the reservation wage,...
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Intergenerational transmission of risk attitudes: The role of gender, parents and grandparents in Burkina Faso
Sepahvand, Mohammad H.; Shahbazian, Roujman - 2017
this socialization decreases when we control for parents risk attitudes. Third, since there are strong gender roles in …
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Early Socialization and the Gender Wage Gap
Getik, Demid; Meier, Armando N. - 2021
We study the impact of early socialization on gender inequality in the labor market. To this end, we link the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208904
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Civil liberties and social structure
Erol, Selman; García Jimeno, Camilo - 2024
Governments use coercion to aggregate distributed information relevant to governmental objectives-from the prosecution of regime-stability threats to terrorism or epidemics. A cohesive social structure facilitates this task, as reliable information will often come from friends and acquaintances....
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Political drivers of and barriers to Public-Private Partnerships: The role of political involvement
Gawel, Erik - 2011
The application and design of public-private partnerships between the extremes of purely public or purely private task fulfilment in public services is, in practice, subject to political processes. Decisions about PPPs (realisation, arrangement) are taken in the political arena and are therefore...
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A study of the financial health of the telecom sector
Kathuria, Rajat; Kedia, Mansi; Sekhani, Richa - 2019
India's telecom sector is one of the largest and fastest growing networks across the globe. The increase in subscriptions has been nothing short of dramatic. Increasingly consumers are using phones to decrease transaction costs, access information and become more productive. Data price has...
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