This study compares the publication and patent performance of selected medical research locations in five countries. The bibliometric indicators reveal that mostly the U.S. locations, above all Harvard University, have the highest score in the rankings in terms of quantity and quality of their...

Die Gegebenheiten des Marktes und die Eigenschaften des Produktes beeinflussen die Kartellbildung und -stabilität. Dieser Einfluss wird in dieser Literaturstudie anhand verschiedener Determinanten untersucht. Es zeigt sich, dass die Mehrheit der identifizierten Studien diesen Zusammenhang...

The process by which scholarly papers are selected for publication in a journal is faced with serious problems. The referees rarely agree and often are biased. This paper discusses two alternative measures to evaluate scholars. The first alternative suggests input control. The second one...

Am 1. September 2018 veröffentlichte die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ihr neues Ökonomenranking. Der vorliegende Artikel macht einige Anmerkungen zur Methodik und Interpretation. Zudem werden kritische Punkte diskutiert. Abschließend wird ein Vergleich zum Ökonomenranking der RePEc-Website...

Information and communications technology, global value chains, and population ageing are changing the structures of the labour market. These three factors affect the tasks carried out in Finland in the future and the division of labour between humans and computers. The changes are taking place...

This dissertation is a collection of four research papers written during my doctoral studies at the University of Konstanz between October 2004 and November 2008. These papers are empirical studies dealing with different aspects in the field of university economics. The focus of the first two...