Someone sent this email yesterday, someone I know was in the BCC:
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Subject: FW: Alleged misconduct Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:27:17 +0100
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Subject: FW: Alleged misconduct Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:27:03 +0100
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Subject: Alleged misconduct Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:25:00 +0100
Good day,
I would like to make you aware of the following. Virtually the same paper has been published in four academic economics journals without proper cross-referencing. Two of the journals are in the top five of economics journals. Co-author Bruno Frey has been the subject of investigation for this type of misconduct, for work with other co-authors. These papers are the main contributions of Felix Oberholzer-Gee to the field of economics and submitting the same paper several times without cross-referencing is in violation of the guidelines of the respective journals. He now works at Harvard Business School as a professor of business administration and may not have been the subject of previous investigation.
Please let me know within one week from now whether you (editors and repec plagiarism committee) will open (preliminary) investigations.
Frey, Bruno S., Felix Oberholzer-Gee (1996). "Fair siting procedures: An empirical analysis of their importance and characteristics." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 15(3), p. 353–376.
Frey, Bruno S., Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Reiner Eichenberger (1996). "The Old Lady Visits Your Backyard: A Tale of Morals and Markets." Journal of Political Economy 104(6), p. 1297-1313.
Frey, Bruno S., and Felix Oberholzer-Gee (1997). "The Cost of Price Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of Motivation Crowding-Out." American Economic Review 87(4), p. 746-755.
Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Iris Bohnet und Bruno S. Frey (1997). "Fairness and competence in democratic decisions." Public Choice 91(1), p. 89-105. DOI: 10.1023/A:1004933219501
Main table of the four papers
Journal of Political Economy 1996 (cites only JPAM):
Title of main table: "Determinance of acceptance to host a nuclear waste repository, results of a binary logit analysis"
Titles of columns of main table: "Willingness to accept facility without compensation; Willingness to accept facility with compensation"
Rows: "Individual risk estimates; negative income impacts; home ownership; support for nuclear energy; acceptance of current procedure; importance of fair procedure; political orientation; income; age; sex"
American Economic Review 1997 (does not cite other three papers)
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