Do economists swing for the fences after tenure?
Do economists swing for the fences after tenure?
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Nashville: American Economic Association
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English
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Nashville: American Economic Association
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Using a sample of all academics who pass through top 50 economics and finance departments from 1996 through 2014, we study whether the granting of tenure leads faculty to pursue riskier ideas. We use the extreme tails of ex-post citations as our measure of risk and find that both the number of publications and the portion consisting of “home runs”...
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Do economists swing for the fences after tenure?
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1992600241
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1992600241
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0895-3309
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1944-7965
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10.1257/jep.32.1.179
