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Collaborative Research in Economics - The Wisdom of Working Together
of: Michael Szenberg, Lall B. Ramrattan
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
ISBN: 9783319528007 , 334 Pages
Format: PDF, Read online
Copy protection: DRM
Dedication
5
Foreword
6
Preface and Acknowledgments
8
Contents
12
List of Contributors
15
List of Figures
17
List of Tables
18
Chapter 1: Introduction
20
1.1 Theories of Collaboration
24
1.1.1 Game Theory and Collaboration
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1.1.2 Edgeworth Box and Collaboration
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1.1.3 Team Collaboration
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1.2 Hypothesis on Collaboration
29
1.3 Chapter Summaries
40
1.4 Conclusion
45
References
46
Chapter 2: On Collaboration in General Economics
50
2.1 Conclusion
58
References
58
Chapter 3: Reflections on Our Collaboration in Industry Studies
60
Notes
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Chapter 4: The Productivity Impact of Collaborative Research in the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty
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4.1 Introduction
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4.2 The Impetus for Collaboration
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4.3 Assembling a Large Collaborative Team: The Hazardous Waste Policy Project
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4.4 The Coauthor Roster
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4.5 Summary Statistics of Publications
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4.6 Publications Over the Life Cycle
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4.7 Conclusion
81
References
82
Chapter 5: Age, Cohort and Co-authorship: The Statistics of Collaboration
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5.1 Background
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5.2 Age, Cohort or Time?
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5.3 Prior Co-authoring and Productivity
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5.4 Age and the Choice of Co-authors
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5.4.1 The Relation Between Age and Co-authors’ Ages
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5.4.2 The Stability of Co-authoring Patterns over the Life Cycle
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5.4.3 Age and the Identity of Co-authors
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5.5 Aging Female Co-authors
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5.6 Older and Younger Co-authors: Comparisons and Etiquette
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5.6.1 Comparing Achievements across Cohorts
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5.6.2 Co-authoring Etiquette for Older Economists
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5.7 Implications and Summing Up
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Notes
109
References
111
Chapter 6: Collaborative Choices in Econometrics
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6.1 Some Statistics on the Prevalence of Completed Collaborations
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6.2 Conjectures on the Growth in Collaborative Economics
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6.3 My Collaborative Experiences
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6.3.1 My Empirical Research
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6.3.2 My Theoretical Research
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6.4 Collaborations as Social Interactions
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Notes
125
References
125
Chapter 7: On the Pleasures and Gains of Collaboration in Microeconomics
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7.1 My Coauthor—A Quick Survey
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7.2 Bill Bowen and Arts Economics—Birth of a Small Industry
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7.3 Alan Blinder and the Principles Textbook
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7.4 The Birth of Contestability Theory
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7.5 Productivity Growth and the Surprising US Performance
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7.6 Ralph Gomory and the Orderly Region of the Scale-Economies Trade Equilibria
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7.7 Concluding Comment
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Chapter 8: A Serial Collaborator
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8.1 Collaboration with Abba Lerner
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8.2 Collaboration with Harry Landreth
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8.3 Collaboration with Arjo Klamer
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8.4 Collaborations with Critics
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8.5 Et al.: Institutionally Imposed Collaboration
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8.6 Collaboration with Non-Economists
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8.7 Collaboration with the Dead
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8.8 The Often Unmentioned Collaborators
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8.9 Why Collaborate?
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8.10 A Final Comment
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Bibliography
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Chapter 9: Collaboration With and Without Coauthorship: Rocket Science Versus Economic Science
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9.1 Introduction
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9.2 Rocket Science
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9.3 Nonlinearity
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9.4 Measurement
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9.5 The Federal Reserve
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9.6 Academia
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9.7 Conclusion
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Notes
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References
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Chapter 10: Why We Collaborate in Mathematical Ways
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10.1 Lonely Work versus Collaboration in the Knowledge Economy
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10.2 Division of Labor Then and Now
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10.3 How the Human Brain Acquires and Perfects Skills
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10.4 Findings in Experimental Psychology
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10.5 From Experimental Psychology to Economics
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10.6 Regime Shift in the Learning Curve
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10.7 Solving a Classic Problem of Resource Allocation
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10.8 Why Do We Collaborate?
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10.9 Conclusion
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Notes
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Selected References
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Chapter 11: Collaborative is Superadditive in Political Economics
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11.1 Evidence of Increasing Collaboration
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11.2 Explanations for Increasing Collaboration
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11.3 Superadditivity in Production
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11.4 A Model of Collaboration Costs and Benefits
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11.5 Superadditivity in Credit
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11.6 Productivity in Mixed Collaborations in Music and in Economics
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11.7 Suboptimal Levels and Modes of Collaboration, Some Behavioral Explanations
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11.8 Conclusion
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Notes
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References
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Chapter 12: “Heinz” Harcourt’s Collaborations: Over 57 Varieties
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12.1 Introduction
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12.2 Early Collaborations
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12.3 First Adelaide Years
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12.4 Cambridge in the 1960s
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12.5 Return to Adelaide 1967–72
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12.6 Collaboration in Adelaide in the 1970s
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12.7 Collaboration in Canada
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12.8 Further Collaboration in Adelaide
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12.9 Twenty-eight Years in Heaven: Return to Cambridge in 1982
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12.10 Collaboration on Visits to OZ
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12.11 In Cambridge From 1982 On
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12.12 Prue Kerr and I
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12.13 At the School of Economics UNSW, 2010–
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12.14 Post-Keynesians from Down Under
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12.15 Conclusion
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Notes
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Collaborations
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Books
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Articles
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Review Articles
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Notes
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Chapters in Books
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Reviews
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Other References
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Articles et al. by G.C. Harcourt:
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Chapter 13: Coauthors and Collaborations in Labor Economics
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13.1 Introduction and Patterns to Explain
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13.2 The Whys and Whos of Coauthors
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13.3 Collaboration Without Being a Coauthor
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13.4 Concluding Remarks
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Notes
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References
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Chapter 14: Two Heads are Better than One, and Three is a Magic Number in Economics
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Notes
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Chapter 15: Why Collaborate in International Finance?
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15.1 How Collaboration Begins
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15.2 Benefits and Costs of Collaboration
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15.3 The Process of Collaboration in Economics
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15.4 Two Long-Term Collaborations
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15.5 Short-Term Collaborations
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15.6 Collaboration With a Significant Other
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15.7 Collaboration versus Co-authorship
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15.8 Possible Downsides of Collaboration
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15.9 Some Concluding Thoughts
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Notes
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Chapter 16: My Collaborations in Game Theory
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16.1 Collaborations of the First Kind
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16.2 Collaboration with Basil S. Yamey
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16.3 Collaborations with Robert L. Graves
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16.4 Collaborations with William Best, John Egan and Harlow Higinbotham
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16.5 Collaborations of the Second and Third Kind
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16.6 Lessons of Collaboration
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Chapter 17: Co-authors in History
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Chapter 18: Collaboration: Making Eclecticism Possible in Economic Law and Politics
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Chapter 19: Collaboration and the Development of Experimental Economics: A Personal Perspective
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19.1 Students Had a Prominent Role in the Development and Study of Experimental Markets
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19.2 Rapid but Unanticipated Innovation Soon Followed
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19.3 Not All Markets Are Born Equal: The Enigma of Asset Market Bubbles
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19.4 The Lab as a Test-Bed for Designer Markets
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19.5 International Reach
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19.6 Has Economics Seen an Experimental Turn?
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Index
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