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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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CREMA Working Paper ; No. 2009-05
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
Higher Education; Research Institutions
- Subject
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Academia
economists
publication
journals
incentives
economic methodology
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Frey, Bruno S.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)
- (where)
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Basel
- (when)
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2009
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Frey, Bruno S.
- Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)
Time of origin
- 2009
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