Do experts adjust their policy recommendations when the facts change? We conduct a large-scale randomized experiment … among 1,224 economic experts across 109 countries that includes two treatments. The first treatment is the geographic and … randomly assigned information treatment that informs experts about the past macroeconomic performance of their country. We find …

possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in …

Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach … from 776 top economists we identify four archetypoids. These types represent solid, low, top and diligent performer. Each …

We document economists’ opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research … economic researchers who publish in English. We report three main findings. First, economists’ opinions are vastly … economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer …