Evaluation of researchers : a life cycle analysis of German academic economists (2006)
Rauber, Michael, Ursprung, Heinrich W.
In this paper we ague that any meaningful bibliometric evaluation of researchers needs to take into account that research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set...
Evaluation of researchers : a life cycle analysis of German academic economists (2006)
Rauber, Michael, Ursprung, Heinrich W.
In this paper we ague that any meaningful bibliometric evaluation of researchers needs to take into account that research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set...
Political Repression and Child Labor: Theory and Empirical Evidence (2004)
Raabe, Nikolai, Maffei, Sandro, Ursprung, Heinrich W.
Most normative studies on child labor arrive at the conclusion that child labor is detrimental to social welfare. Child labor is, however, still prevalent in many developing countries even though in...
Political Repression and Child Labor: Theory and Empirical Evidence (2004)
Maffei, Sandro, Raabe, Nikolai, Ursprung, Heinrich W.
Most normative studies on child labor arrive at the conclusion that child labor is detrimental to social welfare. Child labor is, however, still prevalent in many developing countries even though in...
Do Civil and Political Repression Really Boost Foreign Direct Investments? (2002)
Harms, Philipp, Ursprung, Heinrich W.
Multinational enterprises are often accused of having a preference for investing in countries in which the working populations' civil and political rights are largely disregarded. This article...
Risk-Aversion and Social Mobility: The Impossibility of Order-Preserving Income Redistributions
Danziger, Leif, Ursprung, Heinrich W.
The traditional criticism notwithstanding, we show that social mobility can, in principle, explain political income redistributions. Nonetheless, the social-mobility argument for redistribution is...
Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity
Gabriela Schütz, Heinrich W. Ursprung, Ludger Woessmann
We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how...
Domestic Politics, Foreign Interests, and International Trade Policy.
Hillman, Arye L, Ursprung, Heinrich W
This paper is directed at explaining the political choice of voluntary export restr aints as means of restriction of international trade. Tariffs are com pared with voluntary export restraints in a...
Commercial Culture, Political Culture and the Political Economy of Trade Policy: The Case of Japan
Selichi Katayama, Heinrich W. Ursprung
In this paper we present a model of endogenous trade-policy formation which captures crucial aspects of the Japanese commercial and political culture. We analyze the influence of the portrayed...
Multinational Firms, Political Competition, and International Trade Policy.
Hillman, Arye L, Ursprung, Heinrich W
This paper considers how the presence of multinational firms influences international trade policy that is determined as the outcome of political competition. Multinational firms have plants to...
La donna e mobile--Or Is She? Voter Preferences and Public Support for the Performing Arts.
Schulze, Gunther G, Ursprung, Heinrich W
This paper investigates a referendum held in 1994 on the public support of the Zurich Opera House. The estimates demonstrate that well over 85 percent of the variance in the approval rates across...
Breyer, Friedrich, Ursprung, Heinrich W
Why is it that, in democracies, the poor do not expropriate the rich even though they outnumber them? In this paper the authors analyze the commonly held belief that the rich escape expropriation...
Epstein, Gil S, Hillman, Arye L, Ursprung, Heinrich W
This paper uses a locational model of rent-seeking to describe incentives to emigrate. A country is considered in which how a person fares in privileged income redistribution is determined by...
Political Repression and Child Labour: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Alessandro Maffei, Nikolai Raabe, Heinrich W. Ursprung
Most normative studies on child labour arrive at the conclusion that child labour is detrimental to social welfare. Child labour is, however, still prevalent in many developing countries even though...
Schneewittchen im Land der Klapperschlangen: Evaluation eines Evaluators
This is a comment on a ranking of German economics departments published by a semi-official institution, the Center for Higher Education Development (CHE). It is shown that the CHE ranking is highly...
Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity
Gabriela Schütz, Heinrich W. Ursprung, Ludger Wößmann
We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. Using cross-country...
A Positive Theory of the Earnings Relationship of Unemployment Benefits
Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg, Heinrich W. Ursprung
Evidently, the benefit-structure of the unemployment insurance has a significant influence on profits and trade union utility. We show for a wage bargaining model that a stronger earnings...
Commercial Culture, Political Culture and the Political Economy of Trade Policy: The Case of Japan
Katayama, Seiichi, Ursprung, Heinrich W.
In this paper we present a model of endogenous trade-policy formation which captures crucial aspects of the Japanese commercial and political culture. We analyze the influence of the portrayed...
The impact of globalization on the composition of government expenditures: Evidence from panel data
Axel Dreher, Jan-Egbert Sturm, Heinrich W. Ursprung
According to the disciplining hypothesis, globalization restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure. As a consequence, governments shift their expenditures in favour of transfers...
Foreign Investment and Endogenous Protection with Protectionist Quid Pro Quo
Arye L. Hillman, Heinrich W. Ursprung
The literature on quid pro quo foreign direct investment describes how unwarranted investment may be undertaken because of the endogeneity of trade policy. The quid pro quo is that foreign producers,...
The King Never Emigrates: Political Culture and the Reluctant International Movement of People
Epstein, Gil S, Hillman, Arye L., Ursprung, Heinrich W.
We consider a country where a king assigns benefits in accordance with privilege determined by the population’s proximity to the throne. People have different relative advantages in seeking...
Do Civil and Political Repression Really Boost Foreign Direct Investments?
Philipp Harms, Heinrich W. Ursprung
Multinational enterprises are often accused of having a preference for investing in countries in which the working populations' civil and political rights are largely disregarded. This article...
Life Cycle and Cohort Productivity in Economic Research: The Case of Germany
Michael Rauber, Heinrich W. Ursprung
We examine the research productivity of German academic economists over their life cycles. It turns out that the career patterns of research productivity as measured by journal publications are...
Das Handelsblatt Ökonomen-Ranking 2007: Eine kritische Beurteilung
Robert Hofmeister, Heinrich W. Ursprung
The Handelsblatt Ökonomen-Ranking is as yet the best privately provided ranking of individual economists and entire economics departments in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. It is, however, not...
Who is the "Platz-Hirsch" of the German Economics Profession? A Citation Analysis
Heinrich W. Ursprung, Markus Zimmer
In this paper, we investigate the informational content of citation-based research evaluations. To illustrate our analysis we refer to the 2005 Handelsblatt ranking of German academic economists. We...
Lobbying and Political Polarization
Standard spatial models of political competition give rise to equilibria in which the competing political parties or candidates converge to a common position. In this paper I show how political...