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NBER reporter online
National Bureau of Economic Research - Cambridge, Mass. : NBER - 1977,Apr. - 1980; 1981/82 - 2006/07; 2008 -
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The Slowdown of the Economics Publishing Process
Ellison, Glenn - 2000
top economics journal. This paper documents the slowdown and notes that a substantial part is due to an increasing … quality. Various time series are examined for evidence that the economics profession has changed along these dimensions. Paper … process. It is difficult to attribute much of the slowdown to observable changes in the economics profession. Evolving social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470946
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Marshall's Economies
Henderson, Vernon - 1999
This paper estimates the nature and magnitude of the local externalities from own industry scale, as envisioned by Marshall. Census panel data on individual plants in high-tech and machinery industries across up to 487 countries are utilized, to quantify the direct effects of local external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471426
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Can Capital Mobility be Destabilizing?
Meng, Qinglai - 1999
In a standard two-sector neoclassical model with distortions, capital mobility can render the steady state indeterminate, in the sense that there exist infinitely many convergent paths. In the closed economy with no international capital mobility, the utility function must be linear or close to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471527
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A Rent-Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 1999
This paper develops a rent-protection theory of corporate ownership structure - and in particular, of the choice between concentrated and dispersed ownership of corporate shares and votes. The paper analyzes the decision of a company's initial owner whether to maintain a lock on control when the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471585
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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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Publishing Economics : How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? Fixing Slow?
Hadavand, Aboozar; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wilson, Wesley W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Publishing in economics proceeds much more slowly on average than in the natural sciences, and more slowly than in … round of re-submission at the top economics journals is productive of additional subsequent citations; but conditional on re …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616595
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The Political-Economic Causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932–33
Markevič, Andrej M.; Naumenko, Natalya; Qian, Nancy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This study constructs a large new dataset to investigate whether state policy led to ethnic Ukrainians experiencing higher mortality during the 1932-33 Soviet Great Famine. All else equal, famine (excess) mortality rates were positively associated with ethnic Ukrainian population share across...
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