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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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Homenaje a Milton Friedman: Club de la Libertad
Méndez, Alberto Medina; Elías, Julio Jorge; … - 2021
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A tribute to Milton Friedman: Club de la Libertad
Méndez, Alberto Medina; Elías, Julio Jorge; … - 2021
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German Influences on American Economic Thought and American Influences on German Economic Thought / Deutsche Einflüsse auf amerikanisches wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Denken und a...
Hagemann, Harald (contributor) - 2017
Ursache der Schwerpunktverschiebung liegt in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, in der die USA auch in der … economics. Émigré economists from Germany and Austria made major contributions to the »Americanization« of economics after WW II …
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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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The US Fiscal Cliff – When Economists Recklessly Endanger the Economy
Kotlikoff, Laurence - In: CESifo Forum 14 (2013) 2, pp. 3-8
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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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