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On the Distribution of Career Longevity and the Evolution of Home Run Prowess in Professional Baseball
Petersen, Alexander Michael; Jung, Woo-Sung; Stanley, … - 2011
Statistical analysis is a major aspect of baseball, from player averages to historical benchmarks and records. Much of baseball fanfare is based around players exceeding the norm, some in a single game and others over a long career. Career statistics serve as a metric for classifying players and...
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Persistence and Uncertainty in the Academic Career
Petersen, Alexander Michael; Riccaboni, Massimo; … - 2012
Understanding how institutional changes within academia may affect the overall potential of science requires a better quantitative representation of how careers evolve over time. Since knowledge spillovers, cumulative advantage, competition, and collaboration are distinctive features of the...
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The Disruption Index Suffers From Citation Inflation and Is Confounded by Shifts in Scholarly Citation Practice
Petersen, Alexander Michael; Arroyave, Felber; … - 2023
behavioral. The structural explanation follows from ‘citation inflation’ (CI) [3], an inextricable feature of real citation …
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Career Lotto : Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets
Grove, Wayne A. - 2019
Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...
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Career lotto : labor supply in winner-take-all markets
Grove, Wayne A.; Jetter, Michael; Papps, Kerry L. - 2018
Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955395
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Quantitative and Empirical Demonstration of the Matthew Effect in a Study of Career Longevity
Petersen, Alexander Michael; Jung, Woo-Sung; Yang, Jae-Suk - 2011
The Matthew effect refers to the adage written some two-thousand years ago in the Gospel of St. Matthew: “For to all those who have, more will be given.” Even two millennia later, this idiom is used by sociologists to qualitatively describe the dynamics of individual progress and the...
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An ordered probit approach to predicting the probability of inflation/deflation
Silvia, John E.; Iqbal, Azhar - In: Business economics : the journal of the National … 50 (2015) 1, pp. 12-19
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The anti deflation bias
Bagus, Philipp - In: Acta oeconomica : periodical of the Hungarian Academy … 70 (2020) 2, pp. 147-161
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A money-based indicator for deflation risk
Amisano, Gianni; Colavecchio, Roberta; Fagan, Gabriel - 2014
We employ a money-based early warning model in order to analyse the risk of a low inflation regime in the euro area …, Japan and the US. The model specification allows for three different inflation regimes: Low, Medium and High inflation … estimate the model with data from the early 1970s up to the present. Our analysis suggests that the risks of a Low inflation …
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On Keynes on inflation and unemployment
O'Connell, Joan - In: The European journal of the history of economic thought 23 (2016) 1, pp. 82-101
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