Paldam, Martin - In: Economics : the open-access, open-assessment journal 15 (2021) 1, pp. 28-42
The methods used in economic research are analyzed on a sample of all 3,415 regular research papers published in 10 general interest journals every 5th year from 1997 to 2017. The papers are classified into three main groups by method: theory, experiments, and empirics. The theory and empirics...