This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers...

To celebrate its 80th anniversary DIW Berlin organised on 8 and 9 December 2005 a conference centred on two themes. The first dealt with the methods and performance of forecasting. The second discussed scenarios for the future of Europe and its major economies. A selection of the contributions...

Im Konzept der datenbankgestützten Internetpräsenz werden das Design und die Gestaltung einer Webseite auf der einen und der redaktionelle Inhalt auf der anderen Seite strikt voneinander getrennt: Das Design und die Programmierung erfolgt mit herkömmlichen Methoden (mit Grafikprogrammen und...

The citation analysis of the research output of the German economic research institutes presented here is based on publications in peer-reviewed journals listed in the Social Science Citation Index for the 2000-2009 period. The novel feature of the paper is that a count data model quantifies the...