In mainstream business and economics, prizes such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom are understood as special types of incentives, with the peculiar features of being awarded in public, and of having largely symbolic value. Informed by both historical considerations and philosophical...

The digital revolution has led to a quantification of ever more areas of human life and society. At the same time, there is an explosion of the number of awards, which by their very nature are based on non-quantified performance. Will quantification take over completely, leading to...

We investigate the impact of the "Metrobank Award for Outstanding Teachers" using a unique dataset from a survey of teachers who competed from 1988 to 2010. Our study is one of the firsts to use income as the primary indicator of success. When the sample is limited to those who were actively...

In mainstream business and economics, prizes such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom are understood as special types of incentives, with the peculiar features of being awarded in public, and of having largely symbolic value. Informed by both historical considerations and philosophical...

In mainstream business and economics, prizes such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom are understood as special types of incentives, with the peculiar features of being awarded in public, and of having largely symbolic value. Informed by both historical considerations and philosophical...

Awards stellen im Rahmen eines Wettbewerbs aus dem Teilnehmerfeld den Besten heraus. Sie sind damit ein vereinfachtes, meist positives Signal, das die Transparenz verbessern, belohnen und Verbesserungs- und Nachahmeffekte erzielen möchte. Grundlage für die Vergabe eines Nachhaltigkeitsawards...

Preise (awards) stellen im Rahmen eines Wettbewerbs aus dem Teilnehmerfeld den Besten heraus. Sie sind damit ein vereinfachtes, meist positives Signal, damit soll belohnt, Transparenz erhöht sowie Verbesserungs- und Nachahmeffekte erzielt werden. In diesem Sinne ist ein Nachhaltigkeitsaward ein...

Preise (awards) stellen im Rahmen eines Wettbewerbs aus dem Teilnehmerfeld den Besten heraus. Sie sind damit ein vereinfachtes, meist positives Signal, damit soll belohnt, Transparenz erhöht sowie Verbesserungs- und Nachahmeffekte erzielt werden. In diesem Sinne ist ein Nachhaltigkeitsaward ein...

Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they conferred on the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data about the most important...

The digital revolution has led to a quantification of ever more areas of human life and society. At the same time, there is an explosion of the number of awards, which by their very nature are based on non-quantified performance. Will quantification take over completely, leading to...

We investigate the impact of the "Metrobank Award for Outstanding Teachers" using a unique dataset from a survey of teachers who competed from 1988 to 2010. Our study is one of the firsts to use income as the primary indicator of success. When the sample is limited to those who were actively...

The digital revolution has led to a quantification of ever more areas of human life and society. At the same time, there is an explosion of the number of awards , which by their very nature are based on non- quantified performance. Will quantification take over completely, leading to...