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Economists in the PITS?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
; publication ; journals ; incentives ; economic methodology …Academic economists today are caught in a "Publication Impossibility Theorem Systemʺ or PITS. To further their careers … in such journals. Such academic competition is held to provide the right incentives for hard work, but there may be …
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Economists in the PITS?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2009 - Rev. version
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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-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338948
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Social ties in academia : a friend is a treasure
Colussi, Tommaso - 2015
This paper employs a unique dataset on articles, authors and editors of the top general interest journals in economics … to investigate the role of social connections in the publication process. Ties between editors and authors are identified … increase in their publication outcomes when this editor is in charge of a journal. The analysis of articles' citations suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347144
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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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Pay and job rank amongst academic economists in the UK : is gender relevant?
Mumford, Karen; Sechel, Cristina - 2019
academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022698
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Soll man das Handelsblatt-Ranking BWL boykottieren?
Dilger, Alexander - 2013
Das Handelsblatt-Ranking BWL erschien 2012 zum zweiten Mal und wurde von über 300 Wissenschaftlern boykottiert. Nach Vorstellung des Rankings und der wichtigsten Argumente für den Boykott werden wesentliche Diskussionsbeiträge zu dem Ranking und Boykott präsentiert und kommentiert. Dabei...
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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 distribution of talent across contests
Azmat, Ghazala; Möller, Marc - 2016
Do the contests with the largest prizes attract the most-able contestants? To what extent do contestants avoid competition? In this paper, we show, theoretically and empirically, that the distribution of abilities plays a crucial role in determining contest choice. Complete sorting exists only...
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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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