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Recombination of Ideas and Direction of Inventive Activity in Economic Growth Research : Evidence from the Journal of Economic Growth
Heikkilä, Jussi - 2022
We explore the inventive activity and recombinant ideas in the field of economic growth research by analyzing the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification codes assigned to articles published in the Journal of Economic Growth. The average number of JEL codes, authors, keywords, pages...
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Returns from Social Capital in Open Source Software Networks
Mendez-Duron, Rebeca; García, Clara E. - 2009
This paper analyzes the structural dimension of social capital, and its impact on the success of open source software projects. By examining ties existing between open source projects through their core members altogether with other contributors, we identify the communication paths and flows of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206236
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196029
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature for receiving countries
Nathan, Max - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-20
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010372494
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Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility Criteria into Executive Compensation and Firm Innovation : International Evidence
Tsang, Albert; Wang, Kun Tracy; Liu, Simeng; Yu, Li - 2021
) criteria into executive compensation is associated with greater innovation output in countries around the world. We also find … compensate for institutional voids and high stakeholder demand for CSR, and thereby foster firm innovation. The results of the … channel analyses suggest that a greater level of employee innovation productivity, enhanced managerial risk-taking, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214459
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Ranking economists on the basis of many indicators : an alternative approach using RePEc data
Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2011
In socio-economic sciences the RePEc network (Research Papers in Economics) has become an essential source for the gathering and the spread of both existing and new economic research. Furthermore, it is currently the largest bibliometric database in economic sciences containing 33 different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489290
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Taking the temperature : a meta-ranking of economics journals
Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2016
We construct a meta-ranking of 315 economics journals based on 38 different individual rankings. Our ranking incorporates both bibliometric measures from three different databases (Web of Knowledge, RePEc and Google Scholar) and previous rankings in the literature. Furthermore, we account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418008
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The benefits of being economics professor A (and not Z)
Praag, Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...
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Recent trends in co-authorship in economics : evidence from RePEc
Rath, Katharina; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2015
This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal articles we show that the average number of authors per article has increased over the last years. This process is likely to be continued in the future. In a regression analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309542
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Economics: an emerging small world?
Goyal, Sanjeev; Leij, Marco van der; Moraga-González, … - 2003
This paper examines the small world hypothesis. The first part of the paper presents empirical evidence on the evolution of a particular world: the world of journal publishing economists during the period 1970-2000. We find that in the 1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands....
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