Stefan Palan

Experimental currency units in investment tasks Incentivized experiments employ various designs of experimental currency units, yet there is typically little justification for choosing a particular …

A reassuring null result - thanks for running the experiment, guys! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So proud of my colleague! Keep up the good work, I'm looking forward to great things to come! 👏

This correction happened, because the authors reached out to the journal when they discovered a mistake in their paper. This is what responsible academic citizenship looks like and how the mistakes we all make from time to time should be dealt with!

A screenshot showing article metrics for the paper "z-Tree: Zurich toolbox for ready-made economic experiments", showing that the paper had 17000 accesses, but 0 citations.

Turns out that Urs Fischbacher's z-Tree paper (13000 citations on Google Scholar) has 0 citations according to the metrics page the paper's publisher, Springer, links to: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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This is how blatantly academic fraud is conducted these days...

There's to hoping there will be a next president...

The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some c...

Shocking (though not unexpected) results by Richardson, Hong, Byrne and Nunes Amaral: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.... Legitimate research article output doubles every 15 years, paper mill output every 1.5 years. "If these trends are not stopped, science is going to be destroyed" says author.

JBEF on the rise!
We’re proud to share a new milestone: an Impact Factor of 4.7, placing the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance at rank 29/241 in BUSINESS, FINANCE (prev. IF 4.3 | rank 33/231). A clear sign of JBEF’s growing relevance — thanks to all contributors for your great support!

Women in Charge: Evidence from Hospitals The paper examines the decision-making, compensation, and turnover of female CEOs in U.S. hospitals. Contrary to the literature on lower-ranked executives and directors in public firms, there is no e...

Women Hospital CEOs manage equally well, but get paid less and are fired more readily than men. Congrats on a great paper - I just wish the results had been less depressingly unsurprising. (No fault of the author obviously, just so my post isn't misconstrued!) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions and report international students who broke rules, among other steps. Harvard called the demands unlawful.

Way to go, Harvard! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Sorry, meant to say Kudos to the New York Times of course. Reading top much political news, I guess...

He cites conspiracy theories or distorted assertions to allege misconduct even after they have been debunked." Kudos to the Economist for printing these clear words!

Trump and Musk Hunt for Corruption, Very Selectively Spending that the White House does not like is being labeled fraudulent. At the same time, President Trump is rolling back anticorruption efforts and ethical standards for himself and allies like Elon...

"Mr. Trump often pulls numbers out of thin air and makes sweeping claims without regard to factual foundations. Likewise, Mr. Trump, the first felon ever elected president, regularly accuses anyone he disfavors of corruption and even criminality without proof... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...