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Attracting attentive academics: Paper, person or place?
Günther, Isabel; Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan - 2015
registered male economists compared to nearly two-thirds of female economists are attending a session), but seem to ask fewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282661
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Not Guilty? : Another Look at the Nature and Nurture of Economics Students
Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003
-year economists or other students. These results stand in contrast to results obtained by Frey, Pommerehne and Gygi (1993) on the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263396
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Economists in the PITS?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
Academic economists today are caught in a Publication Impossibility Theorem System" or PITS. To further their careers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264595
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How to attract an audience at a conference: Paper, person or place?
Günther, Isabel; Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan - 2016
We analyze the drivers of the size of the audience and number of questions asked in parallel sessions at the annual conference of the German Economics Association. We find that the location of the presentation is at least as important for the number of academics attending a talk as the combined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497640
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Not guilty? Another look at the nature and nurture of economics students
Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003
Economists praise the efficiency of the price mechanism in allocating scarce resources. Others, however, often reject … it as unfair. In this study, we investigate the extent to which economists also differ from non-economists in how they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301744
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The benefits of being economics professor A (and not Z)
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276299
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The benefits of being economics professor A (and not Z)
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the conven-tion in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Pro-fessor A, who has been a first author more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276970
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Eine Netzwerkanalyse von Ökonomen und Wissenschaftlern anderer Disziplinen auf Basis eines Surveys unter Abgeordneten und Ministerialbeamten
Schwarzbauer, Wolfgang; Thomas, Tobias; Wagner, Gert G. - 2019
In Germany, public debates between economists are rather rare. However, in media coverage on economists there is an … economists this assignment is rarely explicitly pronounced, an empirical investigation based on the media coverage is difficult …. Our contribution examines the assigned orientation of economists by proximity in networks of peers and scientists from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996700
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The Urgent Need for an Economics of “Hategoatism”
Payson, Steven - 2019
government workers). Economists must lead by example by combating hategoatism, and that requires cleaning their own house first. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023362
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Political Economists are Neither Selfish Nor Indoctrinated
Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2001
Most professional economists believe that economists in general are more selfish than other persons and that this … particular behavior of economists can be explained by a selection effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315114