Who is MT?
würdiger nachfolger von SH: gleich wenig Publikationen
...in einem Zehntel der Zeit!
Should have hired Rudi, just to spite Homburg.
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AG and RL (as well as MT) are amazing hires for relatively small departments. This is great for German economics. Look at the hires of 10 years ago and now, clear upward trajectory
I would not call them amazing hires. They are good, yes. But don’t forget, Tübingen has Gernot Müller, not exactly a light weight, both in Germany and internationally. So, what this means is that simply the requirements for a professorship at even an average Econ department in Germany have gone up substantially.
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One can quibble about the definition of "amazing". What I am saying: If your marginal hire has the same or a better publication record (holding academic age constant) than the by far best at your department, this is great.
AG and RL (as well as MT) are amazing hires for relatively small departments. This is great for German economics. Look at the hires of 10 years ago and now, clear upward trajectory
I would not call them amazing hires. They are good, yes. But don’t forget, Tübingen has Gernot Müller, not exactly a light weight, both in Germany and internationally. So, what this means is that simply the requirements for a professorship at even an average Econ department in Germany have gone up substantially.
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Who is MT?
würdiger nachfolger von SH: gleich wenig Publikationen
...in einem Zehntel der Zeit!
JIE, JFE, EER, JPuBE. That's decent for Hannover and a huge improvement.
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One can quibble about the definition of "amazing". What I am saying: If your marginal hire has the same or a better publication record (holding academic age constant) than the by far best at your department, this is great.
AG and RL (as well as MT) are amazing hires for relatively small departments. This is great for German economics. Look at the hires of 10 years ago and now, clear upward trajectory
I would not call them amazing hires. They are good, yes. But don’t forget, Tübingen has Gernot Müller, not exactly a light weight, both in Germany and internationally. So, what this means is that simply the requirements for a professorship at even an average Econ department in Germany have gone up substantially.
Hilarious. Maybe take a minute and think again what you are arguing here. (Hint: this is why German academia is basically irrelevant today.)
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AG and RL (as well as MT) are amazing hires for relatively small departments. This is great for German economics. Look at the hires of 10 years ago and now, clear upward trajectory
I would not call them amazing hires. They are good, yes. But don’t forget, Tübingen has Gernot Müller, not exactly a light weight, both in Germany and internationally. So, what this means is that simply the requirements for a professorship at even an average Econ department in Germany have gone up substantially.
Hi Gernot!
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Funny. On the one hand, a place like Tübingen hires some people with top fives (AG, RL), or very strong contenders (GM), and people here are like "eh, quite good". On the other hand, a place like Hanover hires a guy (as full professor!) only a few years out, with a total of 4 publications in mid-tier journals, and people here are like "wow!". Go figure..
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yes the presentation must have been great. Did not think that one could land a W3 job without a top 5 as male researcher at a place like hannover
But that shouldn't be possible. A good presentation can't make up for a lack of research output. A bad presentation however can disqualify a good researcher.
But this comes back to some of the posts above - the German system is vastly outdated and not designed to attract good researchers or foster good research. Positions usually have to be filled immediately, often leading to weak hires based on "potential". And weak faculty tends to hire more weak candidates.
A TT-system usually works better in this regard, if implemented properly. But this would also mean that underperforming candidates really have to leave, something that I'd say will also not happen in Germany.
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I'd hardly call those mid-tier publications. Get a grip.
Of course
journal of public econ (2nd tier field journal) and european econ review (3rd tier general interest) seem for some reason highly valued in Germany
I'd hardly call those mid-tier publications. Get a grip.
Of course these are mid-tier publications in econ.
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journal of public econ (2nd tier field journal) and european econ review (3rd tier general interest) seem for some reason highly valued in Germany
I'd hardly call those mid-tier publications. Get a grip.
See point above. Weak faculty often creates a parallel ranking system that is based on their own research profile. Same happened with German journals some years ago, which were vastly overrated (or maybe still are some disciplines) although people used to send stuff there after trying ten other journals.
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Funny. On the one hand, a place like Tübingen hires some people with top fives (AG, RL), or very strong contenders (GM), and people here are like "eh, quite good". On the other hand, a place like Hanover hires a guy (as full professor!) only a few years out, with a total of 4 publications in mid-tier journals, and people here are like "wow!". Go figure..
I would say: Tübingen > Hannover. That could explain partially the different reactions. But yeah, agreed, Tübingen hires > Hannover hire.