This paper discusses the state of economic policy advice in Germany and describes and analyses the results of a new … ranking of German economists which not only measures individual economists’ impact on research (via the h-index), but also … Germany. …

The “FAZ Economists Ranking”, which considers not only economists’ research output but also their political and public … influence, shows that there are very few economists currently doing research that has been taken up widely in the research …- economists. One could argue that the quality of research output does not significantly determine the impact of research on policy …