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Women in Academic Economics : Have We Made Progress?

Ginther, Donna K.; Kahn, Shulamit Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for …

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A Note on the Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals

Greenspon, Jacob; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

economics journals, disaggregating by country/region, quality of journal, and fields of specialization. We document striking …

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Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral?

Card, David - 2019

We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to four leading journals. We find that referee gender has no effect on the relative assessment of female- versus male-authored papers, suggesting that any differential biases of male referees are negligible. To...

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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics

Ellison, Glenn - 2010

A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...

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What Do Economists Know About Crime?

Dills, Angela K. - 2008

In this paper we evaluate what economists have learned over the past 40 years about the determinants of crime. We base our evaluation on two kinds of evidence: an examination of aggregate data over long time periods and across countries, and a critical review of the literature. We argue that...

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David Laidler on Monetarism

Bordo, Michael - 2006

impact on monetary economics of Laidler's work on the demand for money and the quantity theory of money; the transmission …

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Economic forecasting : an Edward Elgar research review

Mills, Terence C. - 2016

: North-Holland. -- MARRIS, Robin L. (1954), The Position of Economics and Economists in the Government Machine: a Comparative … Evaluation of Economic Forecasts, Applied Economics, 5, 35-47. -- CLEMEN, Robert T. (1989), Combining Forecasts: A Review and … F. WALLIS (2009), A Simple Explanation of the Forecast Combination Puzzle, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics …

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Transaction cost economics : an Edward Elgar research review

Williamson, Oliver E. - 2016

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Williamson, Oliver E. and Scott E. Masten (1995), Transaction Cost Economics …-51 -- Commons, John R. (1934), Institutional Economics, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press -- Barnard, Chester (1938), The …), 'Law and Economics', Yale Law Journal, 34, 371-82. -- Hayek, Friedrich (1945), 'The Use of Knowledge in Society', American …

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Pioneers of industrial organization : how the economics of competition and monopoly took shape

Jong, H. W. de (contributor); … - 2007

This encyclopaedic work celebrates the scores of leading pioneers who created the modern economic field of industrial organization, at the heart of which lie competition and monopoly, the two great forces that drive modern markets. Their pioneering work has shaped the field's growing research as...

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James A. Mirrlees, William S. Vickrey, George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz

Vane, Howard R. (contributor); Mulhearn, Chris (contributor) - 2010

), June, 261-78 -- J.A. Mirrlees (1974), 'Notes on Welfare Economics, Information and Uncertainty', in M. Balch (ed), D … Economics, 7 (1), Spring, 105-31 -- James A. Mirrlees (1997), 'Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks …. Akerlof (1970), 'The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism', Quarterly Journal of Economics …

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