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matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …
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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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Industrial activity periodically experiences breakthrough innovations in energy efficiency, but the estimated impacts of these innovations on aggregate energy use are highly varied. We develop a general equilibrium model to investigate whether this variation is determined by the structure of the...
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institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Using more than 120,000 multi-authored articles from the Web of Science economics … subject category, we demonstrate first that the alphabetization rate in economics has declined over the last decade. Second …, we find no statistically significant relationship between alphabetized co-authorship and citations in economics using six …
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Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach allows us to identify typical characteristics of extreme (archetypal) values in a multivariate data set. In contrast to its predecessor, the archetypal analysis, archetypoids...
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economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer …
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journal? We show empirically that the answer is yes, using 3167 articles published in five of the top journals in economics …
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We compare Covid-related working papers in economics to non-Covid-related working papers in four dimensions. Based on …
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Nearly 75 years ago, John Hicks introduced and formalized the concept of the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour and its relation to derived demand. The resulting formula has proven very useful in understanding the derived demand for productive factors, the distribution of...
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