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Please Bring Me the New York Times - On the European Roots of Richard Abel Musgrave

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021

Richard Musgrave was one of the around 200 academic economists who emigrated from Germany when Fascism came to dominate …

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Superstar Economists : Coauthorship Networks and Research Output

Hsieh, Chih-Sheng - 2019

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

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Nobel Students Beget Nobel Professors

Tol, Richard S.J - 2022

It is unclear whether the hierarchy in the economics profession is the result of the agglomeration of excellence or of nepotism. I construct the professor-student network for laureates of and candidates for the Nobel Prize in Economics. I study the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on...

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Alphabetized Co-Authorship in Economics Reconsidered

Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2021

In this article, we revisit the analysis of Laband and Tollison (2006) who documented that articles with two authors in alphabetical order are cited much more often than non-alphabetized papers with two authors in the American Economic Review and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics....

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Classifying Top Economists Using Archetypoid Analysis

Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2021

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 …

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What's Worth Knowing? Economists' Opinions About Economics

Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter - 2021

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 …

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Reaganomics : A Historical Watershed

Komlos, John - 2019

The socio-economic impact of Reaganomics and its long-run deleterious legacy is documented. The preponderance of data indicate that economic growth was not particularly impressive in the wake of the tax cuts of 1981 or 1986. GDP did snap back to potential but failed to accelerate beyond the...

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How does the market use citation data? The Hirsch Index in Economics

Ellison, Glenn - 2010

tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers … perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which …

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Archetypal scientists

Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2012

,083 economists obtained from the RePEc database and identify six archetypes. These are mainly characterized by ratios of published …

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Ranking economists on the basis of many indicators: An alternative approach using RePEc data

Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2011

database in economic sciences containing 33 different indicators for more than 30,000 economists. Based on this bibliographic … overall ranking of economists based on RePEc data. …

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