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interventions. Our research shows that visual communication effectively reduces the gap between scientific economic knowledge and …
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interventions. Our research shows that visual communication effectively reduces the gap between scientific economic knowledge and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346851
This paper examines whether policymakers, economists at the Israeli Finance Ministry, act in their personal pension decisions in accordance with the rational behaviour assumptions underlying the pension policies they advance. We find that while economists' decisions regarding three other...
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In this paper we propose a novel way to model the labor market in the context of a New-Keynesian general equilibrium model, incorporating labor market frictions in the form of hiring and firing costs. We show that such a model is able to replicate many important stylized facts of the business...
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turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and …
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research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German … academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the … research grants. We then go on to investigate the persistence of individual productivity. The Persistence issue is of special …
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This study is intended to facilitate fair research evaluations in economics. Field- and time-normalization of citation … independent of research quality bias the results of citation analyses. We introduce two normalized indicators in economics, which …
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experimental research. Unfortunately, there exist no mechanisms to ensure replications are done. We propose such a mechanism …
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We document economists' opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research … heterogeneous. Second, most researchers are dissatisfied with the status quo, in terms of both research topics and objectives. Third …, on average, respondents think that economic research should become more policy-relevant, multidisciplinary, risky and …
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We describe and compare the experiences of academic exclusion of Alexander Del Mar, J.A. Hobson, and Gordon Tullock. While aspects of the circumstances differed, a common element was academic exclusion because of challenges to mainstream views. Alexander Del Mar, J.A. Hobson, and Gordon Tullock...
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