Modernity is usually thought as a complex society with clearly differentiated spheres of everyday life. It means, in particular, that economic rules do not interfere with the norms structuring political, social, scientific and other interactions. The complex, differentiated society sharply...

Ethische Prinzipen für den Forschungsprozess selbst und dessen Transfer ("Verwertung") sind nur durch Selbstdisziplin der Akteure durchsetzbar - für das erlernen dieser professionellen Disziplin sind nicht Formulare und Kommissionen, sondern die Lehre und Ausbildung des Nachwuchses zentral....

Bei der Finanzierung junger innovativer Unternehmen spielen Informationen und ihre Verfügbarkeit eine maßgebliche Rolle. Insbesondere Informationen aus Netzwerken von Investoren entscheiden häufig über Erfolg und Misserfolg des Startups. Betrachtet man private Geldgeber junger Unternehmen,...

Social capital is currently one of social structure‘s most prominent and debated manifestations. However, we have a limited understanding of how social ties as the basis of social capital form in the first place. From one perspective social capital is viewed as: "investment in social relations...

When preparing a research article, academics engage in informal intellectual collaboration by asking their colleagues for feedback. This collaboration gives rise to a social network between academics. We study whether informal intellectual collaboration with an academic who is more central in...

Many modern firms compete globally. However, research into whether foreignness is an asset or a liability in competition with domestic firms is inconclusive. We argue that foreign MNC subsidiaries are not per se advantaged or disadvantaged. We suggest that the distinction originates from the...

Academic journals disseminate new knowledge, and editors of prominent journals are in a position to affect the direction and composition of research. Using machine learning procedures, we measure the influence of editors of the American Economic Review (AER) on the relative topic structure of...

Ethische Prinzipen für den Forschungsprozess selbst und dessen Transfer ("Verwertung") sind nur durch Selbstdisziplin der Akteure durchsetzbar - für das erlernen dieser professionellen Disziplin sind nicht Formulare und Kommissionen, sondern die Lehre und Ausbildung des Nachwuchses zentral....

We model the diffusion of economic knowledge using an epidemiological model of susceptible, exposed, infected, and recovered populations (SEIR). Treating bibliographic citations as evidence of contagion, we estimate the coefficients of a four-equation system simultaneously for each of 759...

Modernity is usually thought as a complex society with clearly differentiated spheres of everyday life. It means, in particular, that economic rules do not interfere with the norms structuring political, social, scientific and other interactions. The complex, differentiated society sharply...