Arbeitspapier

Economists in the PITS?

Academic economists today are caught in a ?Publication Impossibility Theorem System? or PITS. To further their careers, they are required to publish in A-journals, but this is impossible for the vast majority because there are few slots open in such journals. Such academic competition is held to provide the right incentives for hard work, but there may be serious negative consequences: the wrong output may be produced in an inefficient way, the wrong people may be selected, and the losers may react in a harmful way. The paper suggests several ways for improvement.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CREMA Working Paper ; No. 2009-05

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Thema
Academia
economists
publication
journals
incentives
economic methodology

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Frey, Bruno S.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)
(wo)
Basel
(wann)
2009

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Frey, Bruno S.
  • Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)

Entstanden

  • 2009

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