proposes a new empirical approach to evaluate the implications of rankings by analyzing a rich set of data on World Cup alpine … skiing tournaments for the period of 1995-2013. Focusing on close races, we identify random successes and apply a regression … strategies after one-time successes. In sharp contrast to the growing literature on the positive effects of introducing rankings …

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams' identity and image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non …

considerations can be used in evaluations of university departments in order to render the resulting rankings insensitive to the age …

authorities than the academic journal rankings currently in vogue. We report individual country rankings as well as the global … rankings. While important regional differences emerge, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the American Economic Review, the …

potential. Among the determinants of the number of cites the quality of the publication outlet exhibits a strong positive effect … citations predicted by our best model lead to different rankings across the institutes than current citations indicating …

potential. Among the determinants of the number of cites the quality of the publication outlet exhibits a strong positive effect … citations predicted by our best model lead to different rankings across the institutes than current citations indicating …

potential. Among the determinants of the number of cites the quality of the publication outlet exhibits a strong positive effect … citations predicted by our best model lead to different rankings across the institutes than current citations indicating …