Innerhalb von nur einigen Jahren nach der Wende wurden die ostdeutschen Universitäten und Forschungsinstitute an das westdeutsche Hochschulsystem angepasst. Diese Anpassung bedeutete einen starken Umbruch der ostdeutschen Wissenschaft, die bis dahin unter anderen Bedingungen als in...

We provide a descriptive analysis of various qualities of peer-reviewed journal publications of graduates of North American economics PhD programs between 1980 and 2014. We find that the share of single-author papers in all published papers diminishes from 60% in 1980 to 50% in 1990 and then...

Academic journals disseminate new knowledge, and editors of prominent journals are in a position to affect the direction and composition of research. Using machine learning procedures, we measure the influence of editors of the American Economic Review (AER) on the relative topic structure of...