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A short intro

Since September 2002, I am assistant professor at the Economics Education and Research Consortium at the National University of 'Kyiv-Mohyla Academy' which is located in Kyiv, Ukraine. Before I was a graduate student at the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). My research mainly focuses on the 'economics of science', the 'economics of economics' and I also have some papers on political economy. More specific information about my teaching and research can be found in my CV.
Note further that I'm ranked 55000+ in my ranking of economists (see my ranking page)!

click here to go to my page on the ranking of economics departments (an updated version is now available!)

Some Working Papers

Economics of Economics

• The Prize is Right? An Analysis of Best Paper Prizes (2003)
• Click here for a page with links to journals with best paper prizes
• Incentives in Economics Departments - Part 1: Dynamic Incentives (2001 - Joint with Valérie Smeets and Frederic Warzynski).
• Incentives in Economics Departments - Part 2: Testing Tournament Theory (2001 - Joint with Valérie Smeets and Frederic Warzynski).
• What Do We Know About Ourselves? Academic Research On Economists (updated 2003).
• Basic Statistics for Economists (2000).

Economics of Science

• Academic$: On the Salaries of UK Vice-Chancellors and Principals (2001).
• Human, All too Human: On the Behavior of Universities and Scientists (2000).

Political Economy

• Choosing not to Choose: On the Link between Information and Abstention (updated-2003 - Joint with Abdul G. Noury).
• Purchasing Power- On the Link between Campaign Expenditures and Electoral Success (1999).

Published papers

Journal Articles

• Coupé, Tom (2003),'Revealed Performances : Worldwide Rankings of Economists and Economics Departments, 1990-2000', Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming.
• Coupé, Tom (2003),'Science is Golden: Academic R&D and University Patents', Journal of Technology Transfer, vol. 28, nr. 1, p. 31-46. , Journal of Technology Transfer, vol. 28, nr. 1, p. 31-46.
• Coupé, Tom (2001),'On the Disciplinary Structure and the Number of Belgian Universities: a Historical Perspective', Reflets et Perspectives de la vie économique, vol. XL, nr. 4, p.57-64.

Book Chapters

• Can peer review be trusted? The UK's Research Assessment Exercise on Trial .
• Academic R&D and University Patents.
• Should Universities Be Conglomerates?

Some Other 'Wackonomics' Research Interests

• The Economics of Economics
• The Economics of Football
• The Economics of Religion
• The Economics of Euthanasia
• The Economics of Crime

Some Links

To the future

www.vlaanderen.be
www.wallonia.be

To the past

www.fgov.be

To some future top-ranking economists

To some future top-ranking football players

To some pictures of

My coordinates

Updated: July, 2003