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The student evaluation of teaching: its failure as a research program, and as an administrative guide

Sproule, Robert; Vâlsan, Călin - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 11 (2009) 25, pp. 125-150

This paper points up the methodological inadequacy of the "student evaluation of teaching" as a research program. We do this by reference to three, interrelated arguments. The first is that the student evaluation of teaching cannot claim to capture the wisdom of a crowd because, as a research...

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Contingent valuation: A new perspective

Schläpfer, Felix - 2007

After several decades of academic research on the contingent valuation (CV) method a consistent behavioral explanation of 'hypothetical bias' is still lacking. Based on evidence from economics, economic psychology and the political sciences, I propose an explanation that is based on two simple...

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Validity of discrete-choice experiments: Evidence for health risk reduction

Telser, Harry; Zweifel, Peter - 2005

, its external validity in the health care domain has not been investigated until now. This paper examines the external … validity of DCE concerning the reduction of a health risk. Convergent validity is examined by comparing the value of a … statistical life with other preference elicitation techniques, such as revealed preference. Criterion validity is shown by …

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University entrance selection and age at admission

Wikström, Christina; Wikström, Magnus - 2012

This paper focuses on the predictive validity of the upper secondary grade point average (GPA), when used as selection … university between the years 1993 to 1996. The predictive validity is studied by correlating the GPA from upper secondary school …

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Is it all in the eye of the beholder? The importance of situation construal for situational judgment test performance

Freudenstein, Jan‐Philipp; Schäpers, Philipp; … - In: Personnel Psychology 73 (2020) 4, pp. 669-700

items). Lastly, we determined whether situation construal has incremental validity for job-related criteria over and above …

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What Will Homeland Security Cost?

Hobijn, Bart - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 2002

[...]In this article, we attempt to quantify the economic effectsof the homeland security efforts of the public and privatesectors, focusing specifically on the costs of these efforts. Inpractice, it is difficult to classify which expenditures are relatedto homeland security. For this reason, we...

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Determinants and Impact of Sovereign Credit Ratings

Cantor, Richard; Packer, Frank - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1996

[...]To explore these questions, we present the firstsystematic analysis of the determinants and impact of thesovereign credit ratings assigned by the two leading U.S.agencies, Moody’s Investors Service and Standard andPoor’s.1 Such an analysis has only recently become possibleas a result of...

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Tranching and Rating

Brennan, Michael; Hein, Julia; Poon, Ser-Huang - Manchester Business School - 2008

In this paper we analyze the source and magnitude of marketing gains from selling structured debtsecurities at yields that reflect only their credit ratings, or specifically at yields on equivalently ratedcorporate bonds. We distinguish between credit ratings that are based on probabilities of...

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Ratingmodell zur Quantifizierung des Ausfallrisikos von LBO-Finanzierungen

Lang, Michael; Cremers, Heinz; Hentze, Rainald - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2010

Credit risk measurement and management become more important in all financial institutions in the light of the current financial crisis and the global recession. This particularly applies to most of the complex structured financing forms whose risk cannot be quantified with com-mon rating...

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Rating opaque borrowers: why are unsolicited ratings lower?

Bannier, Christina E.; Behr, Patrick; Güttler, André - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2009

This paper examines why unsolicited ratings tend to be lower than solicited ratings. Bothself-selection among issuers and strategic conservatism of rating agencies may be reasonableexplanations. Analyses of default incidences of non-U.S. borrowers between January 1996and December 2006 show that...

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