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that prevailed in Argentina from 1988 to 2003, we jointly estimate the effects that changes in these public revenues had on …
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Based on the fiscal regime that prevailed in Argentina from 1988 to 2003, we estimate the effects that changes in …
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institutional framework play a role in banks' decisions. To do so, we use a unique survey of banks in Argentina and Chile, two …
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study provides an overview of experimental methods in economics, with a special focus on developing an economic theory of …
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Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards …. However, little scientific attention has been devoted to them. This paper documents the prevalence of awards in the economics … profession and analyzes the number and type of awards received by the 1,200 leading economists included in Who's Who in Economics …
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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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1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands, with the largest island having about 15% of the population. Two … decades later, in the 1990's, the world of economics was much more integrated, with the largest island covering close to half … believe that economics is an emerging small world. What is it about the network structure that makes the world small? An …
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Macroeconomic Dynamics commissioned this interview with Assar Lindbeck for a series of such conversations with economists, starting with Duncan Foley's interview with Wassily Leontief in 1998. Other interviews in the series include Ben McCallum's interview with Robert Lucas (1999), Olivier...
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This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …
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of study. These differences can in most cases be attributed to self-selection. A notable exception is economics. Even … though self-selection is also important, training in economics has an unambiguous influence on the political attitudes: by … the time of graduation, economics students are about 6.2 percentage points more likely than they were as freshmen to agree …
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