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Bitcoin Myths and Facts
Harvey, Campbell R. - 2017
I will address eight common claims about bitcoin: 1. Physical bitcoins exist; 2. The founder of bitcoin is a person called Satoshi Nakamoto; 3. Bitcoin is mainly used for criminal activity; 4. A lack of security plagues bitcoin; 5. Mining is a waste of energy; 6. Bitcoin too small today to be an...
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The new urban paradigm
Lanfranchi, Gabriel; Herrero, Ana Carolina; Palenzuela, … - 2018
This policy brief argues in favor of a new urban model that harnesses the power that cities have to curb global warming. Such a model tackles fundamental management challenges in the energy, building and transport sectors to promote the growth of diverse and compact cities. Such a model is...
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Citation patterns in economics and beyond : assessing the peculiarities of economics from two scientometric perspectives
Aistleitner, Matthias; Kapeller, Jakob; Steinerberger, … - 2017
In this paper we explore three claims concerning the disciplinary character of economics by means of citation analysis …. The three claims under study are: (1) economics exhibits strong forms of intellectual stratification and, as a byproduct … mainstream economics is a highly self-referential intellectual project mostly inaccessible to disciplinary or paradigmatic …
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The influence of Covid-19 on publications in economics : bibliometric evidence from five working paper series
Bürgi, Constantin; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2022
We compare Covid-related working papers in economics to non-Covid-related working papers in four dimensions. Based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255865
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Do Working Papers Increase Journal Citations? Evidence from the Top 5 Journals in Economics
Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bürgi, Constantin - 2021
journal? We show empirically that the answer is yes, using 3167 articles published in five of the top journals in economics …
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What is the benefit from publishing a working paper in a journal in terms of citations? : evidence from economics
Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bürgi, Constantin - 2021
Many papers in economics that are published in peer reviewed journals are initially released in widely circulated … comprises about 28.000 working papers from four major working paper series in economics. Using panel data methods, we show that …
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Do working papers increase journal citations? : evidence from the top 5 journals in economics
Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bürgi, Constantin - 2020
journal? We show empirically that the answer is yes, using 3167 articles published in five of the top journals in economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304286
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Regime-switching determinants of emerging markets sovereign credit risk swaps spread
Ma, Jason Z.; Deng, Xiang; Ho, Kung-Cheng; Tsai, Sang-Bing - 2018
Using the Markov regime switching approach, the authors investigate the dependency of short term sovereign credit default swap (SCDS) spread changes on a nation's country-specific fundamental factors, local, regional and macroeconomic global factors. They find that the significance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011866091
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The Influence of COVID-19 on Publications in Economics : Bibliometric Evidence from Five Working Paper Series
Bürgi, Constantin; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2022
We compare Covid-related working papers in economics to non-Covid-related working papers in four dimensions. Based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082235
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Peasants and globalization : political economy, rural transformation and the agrarian question
Akram-Lodhi, Agha Haroon (contributor) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003611280