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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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Homo agricola considered as homo economicus and homo politicus
Zawojska, Aldona - 2010
farmers' behaviour to economic behaviour or rather to self-interested homo economicus. Institutional economics, social … economics and socio-economics are closer to actual human nature, than homo economicus. The further research challenge before …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307581
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307661
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The economics of a "mixed blessing" effect: A case study of the Black Sea
Knowler, Duncan; Barbier, Edward B. - 2002
Nutrient enrichment of marine ecosystems is regarded as a pressing global environmental problem. For certain marine species it may be a mixed blessing, resulting in damaging ecosystem events, but contributing to primary productivity. Consequently, the impact of enrichment on fishery profits may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335671
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Economic Integration, EU-US Trade Conflicts and WTO Dispute Settlement
Breuss, Fritz - 2007
Since its inception in 1995, more than 330 disputes have been raised under the WTO Dispute Settlement System. The major players in world trade - the EU and the USA - are also the busiest users of this instrument. After looking at links between economic integration and WTO involvement and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345406
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Data Policies and Data Archives: A New Paradigm for Academic Publishing in Economic Sciences?
Vlaeminck, Sven; Herrmann, Lisa-Kristin - In: New Avenues for Electronic Publishing in the Age of …, (pp. 145-155). 2015
In our paper we summarise the findings of an empirical study in which a sample of 346 journals in economics and … gives some recommendations for suitable data policies in economics and business sciences journals. In addition, we also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348189
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Recent Trends in Co-Authorship in Economics: Evidence from RePEc
Rath, Katharina; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2015
This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388169
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Does the Field of Study Influence Students' Political Attitudes?
Fischer, Mira; Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2015
of study. These differences can in most cases be attributed to self-selection. A notable exception is economics. Even … though self-selection is also important, training in economics has an unambiguous influence on the political attitudes: by … the time of graduation, economics students are about 6.2 percentage points more likely than they were as freshmen to agree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388219
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A Review on Energy Consumption from a Socio-Economic Perspective: Reduction through Energy Efficiency and Beyond
Schmidt, Stephan; Weigt, Hannes - 2013
research. In this paper we provide a review on energy demand both from an economics and a social science perspective. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390692
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Geographical zoning of Russia
Gorbanyov, Vladimir - 2014
Russia has 11 economic regions - areas that differ from one another in their specialization, a special place in the geographical division of labor. However, the economic zoning of Russia, played a great role in the development of the economic potential of the USSR, largely out of date. Many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400227