Fame and the fortune of academic economists: How the market rewards influential research in economics

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 430-452

  Hilmer, Michael J ^a   Ransom, Michael R ^b   Hilmer, Christiana E ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84957090004     PISSN: 00384038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/soej.12037     Document Type: Article

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