Becoming famous and in the most favorable scenario winning the Nobel Prize is the dream of many young and ambitious economists. Yet, many young re-searchers are talented and only very few of them succeed to become famous in the course of their career. If we take talent for granted questions of...

Das open source entwickelte Betriebssystem Linux setzt den Quasi- Monopolisten Microsoft gefährlich unter Druck. Diese Entwicklung ist aus einer organisationsökonomischen Perspektive deswegen bemerkenswert, weil hinter Linux kein hierarchisches Unternehmen mit zentraler Steuerung und einem...

The academic workforce : expectations and realities -- Inclusive systems, vibrant scholarship -- Expanding definitions of scholarly success -- What faculty and advisors can do -- Students : how to put your PhD to work.

Contents: Introduction to how to fast-track your academic career / Adam Lindgreen, C. Anthony Di Benedetto, Joëlle Vanhamme, and John Nicholson -- Part I: Getting started: 1. Becoming a business-to-business marketing scholar / Adam Lindgreen and C. Anthony Di Benedetto In collaboration with Ko...

This article suggests a modeling framework to investigate the optimal strategy followed by a monopolistic firm to manipulate the process of opinion formation in a social network. We consider a network which consists of the monopolist and a set of consumers who communicate to form their beliefs...

This paper examines the interplay between career concerns and market structure. Ability and effort are complements: effort increases the probability that a skilled agent achieves a one-time breakthrough. Wages are based on assessed ability and on expected output. Effort levels at different times...

We study the effects of overconfidence in a two-period investment-decision agency setting. Under common priors, agent risk aversion implies inefficiently low first-period investment. In our model, principal and agent disagree about the profitability of the investment decision conditional on a...

This paper studies how career concerns affect an agent's choice between a risky and a safe project when the risky project's return depends on its quality and the agent's ability. If the agent does not know her ability, career concerns lead to underinvestment in the risky project, which...

Students in low-income contexts often lack guidance in their career decisions which can lead to a misallocation of educational investments. We report on a randomized field experiment conducted with 1715 students in rural Cambodia and show that a half-day workshop designed to support adolescents...