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Biased Experts, Costly Lies, and Binary Decisions
Hodler, Roland; Loertscher, Simon; Rohner, Dominic - 2010
Decision makers lacking crucial specialist know-how often consult with better informed but biased experts. In our model …, and to situations with multiple experts and uncertainty about the size of the expert's bias. …
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Sequential Aggregation of Verifiable Information
Hahn, Volker - 2010
We introduce the notion of verifiable information into a model of sequential debate among experts who are motivated by … career concerns. We show that self-censorship may hamper the efficiency of information aggregation, as experts withhold … phenomenon, and the probability of the correct state of the world being revealed always converges to one as the group of experts …
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Einflussfaktoren des Studienerfolges im betriebswirtschaftlichen Studium: Eine empirische Untersuchung
Giese, Stefanie; Otte, Franziska; Stoetzer, … - 2013
Was beeinflusst den Studienerfolg eines betriebswirtschaftlichen Studiums in Form der erreichten Abschlussnote? Aus der Perspektive der Studierenden, der staatlichen Hochschulpolitik und der Hochschulen sind dabei unterschiedliche Einflussfaktoren von Bedeutung: Die Note der...
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VHB-JOURQUAL2: Method, Results, and Implications of the German Academic Association for Business Research's Journal Ranking
Schrader, Ulf; Hennig-Thurau, Thorsten - In: BuR - Business Research 2 (2009) 2, pp. 180-204
VHB-JOURQUAL represents the official journal ranking of the German Academic Association for Business Research. Since its introduction in 2003, the ranking has become the most influential journal evaluation approach in German-speaking countries, impacting several key managerial decisions of...
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How should research performance be measured? A study of Swedish economists
Henrekson, Magnus; Waldenström, Daniel - 2010
Billions of dollars are allocated every year to university research. Increased specialisation and international integration of research and researchers has sharply raised the need for comparisons of performance across fields, institutions and individual researchers. However, there is still no...
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Management Research on Reciprocity: A Review of the Literature
Göbel, Markus; Vogel, Rick; Weber, Christiana - In: BuR - Business Research 6 (2013) 1, pp. 34-53
Although reciprocity is fundamental to all social orders, management research offers few reviews of the concept's theoretical origins and current applications. To help bridge this gap, we elucidate the dominant understandings of reciprocity, ask which areas of research emerge from them, and...
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Online accessibility of academic articles and the diversity of economics
Boppart, Timo; Staub, Kevin E. - 2012
A key aspect of generating new ideas is drawing from different elements of past knowledge and combining them into a new idea. In such a process, the diversity of ideas plays a central role. This paper examines the empirical question of how the internet affected the diversity of new research by...
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How Nobel Laureates would perform in the Handelsblatt Ranking
Krapf, Matthias; Schläpfer, Jörg - 2012
We compile a ranking of the research output of all Nobel Laureates in economics using the Handelsblatt methodology and compare the outcome to the Handelsblatt ranking of economists in the Germanspeaking area. Our analysis focuses on whether the overall rating scores of the Nobel Laureates are...
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Citation Success: Evidence from Economic History Journal Publications
Waldenström, Daniel; Di Vaio, Gianfranco; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2010
This study examines the determinants of citation success among authors who recently published their work in economic history journals. We find that full professors, authors from non-economic history departments, and authors working in Anglo-Saxon countries are all more likely to get cited than...
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