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Geography or skills: What explains Fed watchers’ forecast accuracy of US monetary policy?
Berger, Helge; Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2006
The paper shows that there is a substantial degree of heterogeneity in forecast accuracy among Fed watchers. Based on a novel database for 268 professional forecasters since 1999, the average forecast error of FOMC decisions varies 5 to 10 basis points between the best and worst-performers...
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First Author Determinants: An Empirical Analysis
van Praag, Mirjam; van Praag, Bernard M.S. - 2006
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...
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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Praag, Bernard M.S. - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...
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How does the market use citation data? The Hirsch Index in Economics
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers … perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which …
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A guide and advice for economists on the US junior academic job market (2011-2012 edition)
Cawley, John - 2011
This guide, updated for the 2011-12 job market season, describes the U. S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and …
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How well are women represented at the AEA meeting? A study of the 1985 - 2010 programs
Cunningham, Rosemary; Zavodny, Madeline - 2012
The proportion female in the economics profession in the U.S. has been low historically compared with other disciplines. Although the percentage of Ph.D. degrees awarded to women and the representation of women on faculties have increased over time, economics still lags many other fields....
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Where do new Ph.D. economists go? Evidence from recent initial job placements
Chen, Jihui; Liu, Qihong; Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2012
We use data from the 2007-2008 Ph.D. economist job market to investigate initial job placement in terms of job location, job type, and job rank. Our results suggest gender differences in all three dimensions of job placement. Relative to their male counterparts, female candidates are less (more)...
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Fame and the fortune of academic economists: How the market rewards influential research in economics
Hilmer, Christiana E.; Hilmer, Michael J.; Ransom, … - 2012
We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty-three large public universities in the United States. Using the Web of Science, we have identified the journal articles published by these scholars and the number of times each...
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The role of ideology in disagreements among economists: A quantitative analisis
Mayer, Thomas - 2000
How justified is the charge that ideology strongly influences the allegedly objective opinions of economists? An … analysis of a new survey of AEA members and of surveys by Fuchs et al of labor economists and public economists shows that … value judgments and judgments about the government''s efficacy have some influence on the way economists think about what …
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Hillary Clinton oder Donald Trump – wer wird der bessere US-Präsident?
Dorn, Florian; Krause, Manuela; Meier, Philipp; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 69 (2016) 20, pp. 45-50
In der September-Umfrage des Ökonomenpanels von ifo und FAZ wurden Professoren für Volkswirtschaftslehre an deutschen Universitäten zu der bevorstehenden Präsidentschaftswahl in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika befragt. Die große Mehrheit der Teilnehmer würde dabei Hillary Clinton als...
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