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Certified Random: A New Order for Co-Authorship / Debraj Ray, Arthur Robson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ray, Debraj.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22602.
- NBER working paper series no. w22602
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Certified Random
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.
- Summary:
- Alphabetical name order is the norm for joint publications in economics. However, alphabetical order confers greater benefits on the first author. In a two-author model, we introduce and study certified random order: the uniform randomization of names made universally known by a commonly understood symbol. Certified random order (a) distributes the gain from first authorship evenly over the alphabet, (b) allows either author to signal when contributions are extremely unequal, (c) will invade an environment where alphabetical order is dominant, (d) is robust to deviations, (e) may be ex-ante more efficient than alphabetical order, and (f) is no more complex than the existing alphabetical system modified by occasional reversal of name order.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2016.
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