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More than 1,500 organizations and investors representing over $40 trillion in assets have committed to fossil fuel divestment to combat climate change. Will it work? This chapter explores whether divestment might induce green innovation, a critical component of transitioning to a cleaner...
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Elite economics PhD programs aim to train graduate students for a lifetime of academic research. This paper asks how …
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In recent years, comparative economics experienced a revival, with a new focus on comparing capitalist economies. The …
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The increasing demand for rigor in empirical economics has led to the growing use of auxiliary tests (balance … nearly 30,000 sniff tests across 60 economics journals, we provide the first estimate of their aggregate probability-value (p …
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in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U ….S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a powerful influence on tenure decisions and rates of transition to …
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We study how citation patterns differ between journal tiers in economics. Concretely, we analyze citations patterns of … more than 6,000 economics research articles published in top five, second tier, and top field economics journals between … field of economics research (e.g. this ratio is the lowest for econometric methods papers) and with articles' impact (e …
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I reflect on the role of modern economic history in economics. I document a substantial increase in the percentage of … past has contributed to economics by providing ground to test economic theory, improve economic policy, understand economic … those of other economists in the economics job market. I speculate how the increase in availability of high quality micro …
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We solve the stochastic neoclassical growth model, the workhorse of modern macroeconomics, using C++11, Fortran 2008, Java, Julia, Python, Matlab, Mathematica, and R. We implement the same algorithm, value function iteration with grid search, in each of the languages. We report the execution...
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How has publishing in top economics journals changed since 1970? Using a data set that combines information on all … has remained relatively stable, with the notable exception of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which climbed from …
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(JEEA) in 2009 in response to a substantial increase in the length of articles in economics. We focus the analysis on the …
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