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Evaluations : Hidden Costs, Questionable Benefits, and Superior Alternatives
Frey, Bruno S. - 2006
Research evaluation is praised as the symbol of modern quality management. We claim firstly, performance evaluations in … research have higher costs than normally assumed, because the evaluated persons and institutions systematically change their … behavior and develop counter strategies. Moreover, intrinsic work motivation is crowded out and undesired lock-in effects take …
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Omnimetrics and awards
Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
The digital revolution has led to a quantification of ever more areas of human life and society. At the same time, there is an explosion of the number of awards, which by their very nature are based on non-quantified performance. Will quantification take over completely, leading to...
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Academic rankings and research governance
Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010 - This version 11.3.2010
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Academic Rankings and Research Governance
Osterloh, Margit - 2010
Academic rankings today are the backbone of research governance, which seem to fit the aims of “new public management” on the one side and the idea of the “republic of science” on the other side. Nevertheless rankings recently came under scrutiny. We discuss advantages and disadvantages...
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COVID-19 and optimal lockdown strategies : the effect of new and more virulent strains
Caulkins, Jonathan P.; Grass, Dieter; Feichtinger, Gustav; … - 2021
Most nations have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by locking down parts of their economies to reduce infectious spread. The optimal timing of the beginning and end of the lockdown, together with its intensity, is determined by the tradeoff between economic losses and improved health outcomes....
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Handelsblatt ranking and journal quality : a cautionary note
Önder, Ali Sina - In: German economic review 18 (2017) 4, pp. 516-522
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Would you choose your preferred option? : comparing choice and recoded ranking experiments
Caparrós Gass, Alejandro; Oviedo, José L.; Campos … - In: American journal of agricultural economics 90 (2008) 3, pp. 843-855
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Publizieren im Elfenbeinturm? : Wann die Öffentlichkeit an akademischen Rankings interessiert sein muss
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 75 (2008) 38, pp. 574
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Ranking mutual fund families : minimum expenses and maximum loads as markers for moral turpitude
Tower, Edward; Zheng, Wei - In: International review of economics : journal of civil economy 55 (2008) 4, pp. 315-350
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Use of damage schedules in environmental valuation : the case of urban Singapore
Quah, Euston; Choa, Edward; Tan, K. C. - In: Applied economics 38 (2006) 13, pp. 1501-1512
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