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...

Despite the potential importance of awards as a possible career catalyst, the theoretical and empirical research on awards is still in its infancy. Here, we address this notable shortcoming in the economic literature by exploring data from German youth football. Analyzing whether an early career...

Despite the potential importance of awards as a possible career catalyst, the theoretical and empirical research on awards is still in its infancy. Here, we address this notable shortcoming in the economic literature by exploring data from German youth football. Analyzing whether an early career...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Using a new identification strategy and unique, rich data on Nobel laureates, we show that being in new or multiple locations, as measures of exposure to novel combinations of ideas, and the number of other local important innovators, all increase the probability that eventual Nobel laureates...

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström were awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their fundamental contributions to contract theory. This article offers a short summary and discussion of their path breaking work.

Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This paper investigates whether a specific, yet important, award in economics, the John Bates Clark Medal, raises recipients ́subsequent research activity and status compared to a...

This article tests the effects of Oscar awards on the production of feature films. Time series data for Spain over the 1953-2014 period are used and a production function is estimated assuming that the Oscar effects accrue through the total factor productivity. A lag structure is introduced...