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Intertemporal effort provision in sequential tournaments : conference paper
Klein, Arnd Heinrich; Schmutzler, Armin - 2013
This paper analyzes intertemporal effort provision in two-stage tournaments. A principal with a fixed budget for prizes faces two risk-neutral agents. He observes noisy signals of effort in both periods. His goal is to maximize either total efforts (perfect substitutes) or the product of first-...
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Electives shopping, grading competition, and grading norms
Gregor, Martin - 2018
) intensifies the competition: in particular, both top and mean realized scores increase. To tame incentives to provide excessively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914839
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What drives the relevance and reputation of economics journals? : an update from a survey among economists
Haucap, Justus; Muck, Johannes - 2013
, past journal ratings conducted by the Handelsblatt and the German Economic Association (GEA) directly affect journals …' reputation among German economists and indirectly also their perceived relevance, but the effect on reputation is more than twice …
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Incentives for journal editors
Kim, Jinyoung; Koh, Kanghyock - In: The Canadian journal of economics 47 (2014) 1, pp. 348-371
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Grind or gamble? : an experimental analysis of effort and spread seeking in contests
Andersson, Ola; Holm, Håkan J.; Wengström, Erik - 2017
We conduct a contest experiment where participants can invest in increasing both the mean and the spread of an uncertain performance variable. Subjects are treated with different prize schemes and in accordance with theory we observe substantial investments in spread. We find that both types of...
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The world cup of economics journals : a ranking by a tournament method
Kóczy, László Á.; Strobel, Martin - 2010
A ranking of journals is manipulable if a particular journal's position can be improved by making additional citations … to other journals. We introduce a simple ranking method that is not manipulable and is invariant to citation intensities …, journal scaling and article-splitting. The ranking of economics journals is presented and is compared to rankings by …
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Classifying top economists using archetypoid analysis
Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2021
Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach … from 776 top economists we identify four archetypoids. These types represent solid, low, top and diligent performer. Each …
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Classifying top economists using archetypoid analysis
Wohlrabe, Klaus; Gralka, Sabine Marlene - 2020
Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach … from 776 top economists we identify four archetypoids. These types represent solid, low, top and diligent performer. Each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202406
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Why is Harvard #1? Governance and the Dominance of US Universities
Mehta, Shailendra - 2012
This paper examines three related puzzles: 1) Why do US universities dominate the global rankings? 2) Within US universities, why is Harvard University usually ranked at the top? 3) While most universities take centuries to acquire a global reputation how have many US universities leapfrogged to...
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The Economics of Ronald Coase
Veljanovski, Cento - 2020
Ronald Coase (1910-2013), who sadly died at the remarkable age of 102, made significant contributions to economics based on common sense and the detailed study of his topics. Coase was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991 “for his discovery and clarification of the significance...
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