Search Results - economics

Is there hope after despair? : an analysis of trust among China's Cultural Revolution survivors

Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; Torgler, Benno - 2023

We study the long-term effects of the Cultural Revolution, characterised by widespread violence, summary executions and chaos, on a set of trust outcomes among people surveyed by the China Survey in 2008. We find that the revolution, identified by cohort-specific exposure to excess deaths at the...

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Societal Movement Restrictions and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes

Chan, Ho Fai; Cheng, Zhiming; Mendolia, Silvia; Paloyo, … - 2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have struggled to find the right balance between restrictive measures to contain the spread of the virus, and the effects of these measures on people's psychological wellbeing. This paper investigates the relationship between limitations to mobility and...

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Science after Communism: Structural Change, Peers, and Productivity in East German Science

Önder, Ali; Torgler, Benno; Lariviere, Vincent; Moy, Naomi - 2022

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013359235

Committees or markets? : an exploratory analysis of best paper awards in economics

Mixon, Franklin G.; Torgler, Benno; Upadhyaya, Kamal Prasad - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 5, pp. 1-15

Despite the general usefulness of citations as a sort of test of the value of one's work in the marketplace of ideas, journals and publishers tend to use alternative bases of judgment, namely committees, in selecting candidates for the conferral of journals' best paper awards. Given that...

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Behavioural sports economics : a research companion

Altman, Hannah Josepha Rachel (ed.); Altman, Morris (ed.); … - 2022

Introduction : Behavioural Sports Economics / Hannah Altman, Morris Altman, Benno Torgler -- Sport as a Behavioural … Economics Lab / Ho Fai Chan, David A. Savage, Benno Torgler -- Sports Performance, Procedural Rationality and Organizational … Economics in Women's Sport / Stephanie Manning, Ho Fai Chan, and David A. Savage -- Winner Alright? New Evidence on High …