Replication is a critical component of scientific credibility as it increases our confidence in the reliability of the knowledge generated by original research. Yet, replication is the exception rather than the rule in economics. In this paper, we examine why replication is so rare and propose...

Replication is a critical component of scientific credibility as it increases our confidence in the reliability of the knowledge generated by original research. Yet, replication is the exception rather than the rule in economics. In this paper, we examine why replication is so rare and propose...

The paper is based on a keynote talk held at the international conference "Opening data services in the social sciences", Belgrade, Serbia, 20/21 March 2013. The author wishes to thank the SERSCIDA project. Empirical social sciences strongly contribute towards a better understanding of...

Die global gespeicherte Menge an Daten wächst exponentiell. Nach der im November 2018 veröffentlichten Studie "Data Age 2025 - The Digitization of the World" (Reinsel/Gantz/Rydning 2018) wird ein Wachstum des globalen Datenvolumens von 33 Zettabytes (ZB) in 2018 auf 175 ZB in 2025 erwartet. In...

Replication is a critical component of scientific credibility as it increases our confidence in the reliability of the knowledge generated by original research. Yet, replication is the exception rather than the rule in economics. In this paper, we examine why replication is so rare and propose...