In pursuit of impeccable veracity

Sergey Popov

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 114, issue 3, 273-275

Abstract: I study the institution of avoiding hiring one’s own Ph.D. graduates for assistant professorships. I argue that this institution is necessary to create better incentives for researchers to incorporate new information in studies, facilitating the convergence to asymptotic learning of the studied fundamentals.

Keywords: Academic inbreeding; Moral hazard; Knowledge; Information dissemination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 D43 D83 L13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.10.031

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