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Feld, Lars P. - 2014

We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of...

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Reactivity in Economic Science

Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …

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Big Data Analytics : A New Perspective

Chudik, Alexander - 2016

Model specification and selection are recurring themes in econometric analysis. Both topics become considerably more complicated in the case of large-dimensional data sets where the set of specification possibilities can become quite large. In the context of linear regression models, penalised...

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A Multiplicity of Approaches to Institutional Analysis : Applications to the Government and the Arts

Frey, Bruno S. - 2009

Four types of 'economics' relevant for institutional analysis are distinguished: Standard Neoclassical Economics; Socio-Economics … or Social Economics; New Institutional Economics; and Psychological Economics (often misleadingly called Behavioural … Economics). The paper argues that an extension of Neoclassical Economics with elements from other social sciences (including …

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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics

Ellison, Glenn - 2010

A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...

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The Way in Which an Experiment is Conducted is Unbelievably Important : On the Experimentation Practices of Economists and Psychologists

Ortmann, Andreas - 2010

To discuss experimental results without discussing how they came about makes sense when the results are robust to the way experiments are conducted. Experimental results, however, are – arguably more often than not – sensitive to numerous design and implementation characteristics such as the...

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Recent Trends in Co-Authorship in Economics : Evidence from RePEc

Rath, Katharina - 2015

This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …

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A Concise Bibliography of Language Economics

Gazzola, Michele - 2015

to several categories of literature in language economics. It consolidates the respective literature lists used by the …

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The Most Cited Articles from the Top-5 Journals (1991-2015)

Linnemer, Laurent - 2016

This report documents what are the most cited articles published in the top-5 economics journals during the period 1991 … links to all articles, allowing an easy and direct access to arguably the most influential economics literature published in …

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Emotion Research in Economics

Wälde, Klaus - 2016

Emotions were central to the development of economics, especially in utility theory in classical economics. While … neoclassical utility theory basically abolished emotions, behavioural economics more recently reintroduced emotions in utility …

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