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Awards Before and After the Nobel Prize: A Matthew Effect and/or a Ticket to one's own Funeral?

Chan, Ho Fai; Gleeson, Laura; Torgler, Benno - 2013

This study explores whether awards breed further awards and what happens after a researcher receives the Nobel Prize. We therefore collected data on all the 1901 to 1980 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine or physiology, looking at the number of awards received each year for 50...

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The Implications of Educational and Methodological Background for The Career Success of Nobel Laureates: Looking at Major Awards

Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2013

honours. We therefore look at the award life cycle achievements of the 1901 to 2000 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and …

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Do Nobel laureates change their patterns of collaboration following prize reception?

Chan, Ho Fai; Önder, Ali Sina; Torgler, Benno - 2015

. The results overall indicate less collaboration with new coauthors post award than pre award. Nobel laureates are more … the intensity of pre-award cooperation and the longer the period of pre-award collaboration, the higher the probability of … staying in the coauthor network after the award, implying a higher loyalty to the Nobel laureate. …

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Improving the Peer Review Process: A Proposed Market System

Frijters, Paul; Torgler, Benno - 2016

The current peer review system suffers from two key problems: promotion of an in-crowd whose methods, opinions and innovations it protects; and failure to represent the opinions and interests of non-peer clients. As a result, whole disciplines orient themselves toward navel-gazing research...

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Artificial intelligence in the field of economics

Bickley, Steve J.; Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021

The history of AI in economics is long and winding, much the same as the evolving field of AI itself. Economists have …

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Econometric Fellows and Nobel Laureates in Economics

Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2012

An academic award is method by which peers offer recognition of intellectual efforts. In this paper we take a purely …

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Does the John Bates Clark Medal boost subsequent productivity and citation success?

Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Torgler, Benno - 2013

paper investigates whether a specific, yet important, award in economics, the John Bates Clark Medal, raises recipients …

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Are academics messy? Testing the broken windows theory with a field experiment in the work environment

Ramos, João; Torgler, Benno - 2010

common room). We explore academics' and postgraduate students' behaviour under an order condition (clean environment) and a … postgraduate students observe that others violated the social norm of keeping the common room clean the probability of littering …

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The relationship between Stress, Strain and Social Capital

Gächter, Martin; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2010

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social capital in reducing the negative externalities associated with stress, as well as the physical and psychological strain indicators among police officers. Despite the fact that there is a large multidisciplinary literature on stress or on social...

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Retaining the Thin Blue Line: What Shapes Workers' Intentions not to Quit the Current Work Environment

Gächter, Martin; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2010

The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of police officers' intentions to quit their current department. For this purpose, we analysed US survey data that included a large set of police officers from the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland. Our results indicate that...

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