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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 …
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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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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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How well are women represented at the AEA meeting? : a study of the 1985 - 2010 programs
Cunningham, Rosemary T.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2012
, economics still lags many other fields. Previous research has documented gender gaps in tenure, promotion and publication, some …
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Lessons from the laureates
Breit, William; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2009
This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at … one planned in advance but one that evolved via the marketplace for ideas. -- Nobel economists ; economic thought …
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Recent Engagements with Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment
Paganelli, Maria Pia - 2015
Recent literature on Adam Smith and other 18th Scottish thinkers shows an engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with humans — social sciences, humanities, as well as neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.We share with the 18th century Scots...
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What is Economics? - Attitudes and Views of German Economists
Frey, Bruno S.; Humbert, Silke; Schneider, Friedrich - 2009
Which schools of thought are favored by German economists? What makes a good economist and which economists have been … ‘Verein für Socialpolitik’, the association of German speaking economists. An econometric analysis is used to identify to what … economists favor Neoclassics as a school of thought and appreciate the contributions of their Anglo-Saxon colleagues much more …
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