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Open Access and Open Assessment: The Future of Peer Reviewed Journals? Experiences with a New Journal in Economics
Siegert, Olaf; Werner-Schwarz, Korinna - 2009
methods. The presentation will showcase “Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal” as one prime example …. “Economics”, as the name indicates, covers papers from all parts of Economic Research. These papers, if accepted, are first … Bank or the London School of Economics (LSE). After a slow start more and more comments and reviews are added to new papers …
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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. …
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Economics in Europe
Lindbeck, Assar - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 1, pp. 31-32
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Pensions: A Complex Landscape
Eich, Frank; Swarup, Amarendra - 2008
Pension reforms have been high on the political agenda in many developed countries over recent years and pension issues have been discussed intensely in the public as a result. In recent years, much effort has been devoted to make state, public and private pension systems fiscally more...
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Materials, Capital, Direct/Indirect Substitution and Mass Balance Production Functions
van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 1998
A foundation is provided for a correct and accurate analysis of the relationship between monetary values and physical dimensions in economic production. A distinction is proposed between direct and indirect substitution. Linked to this, a classification is offered of various types of...
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Mobile Phone Data and Urban Analysis: An Exploratory Space – Time Study
Tranos, Emmanouil; Steenbruggen, John; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013
This paper discusses the value that data from mobile phone providers can bring into urban analysis. The novel argument is that the pervasiveness of mobile phone telephony has transformed mobile phones from a communications device to a tool for socio-spatial research. Put simply, mobile phone...
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The Perils of Peer Review in Economics and Other Sciences
Fölster, Stefan - 1991
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The effects of pollution on open access fisheries: A case study of the Black Sea
Knowler, Duncan; Barbier, Edward B.; Strand, Ivar E. - 1997
There is now increasing recognition that the world's marine ecosystems, especially coastal areas and semi-enclosed seas, are suffering from degradation and modification due to human influences. One of the most serious problems is nutrient enrichment, which in the long term harms productivity and...
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Population growth and carbon emissions
Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
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Trade and women
Shepherd, Ben; Stone, Susan F. - 2017
This paper studies the impact of migrant children on their parents' occupation choice and wage income using a dataset from a household survey conducted in 2011. We find that the heads of migrant households with school-age children earn significantly less than those who left them at their place...
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