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Data policies and data archives : a new paradigm for academic publishing in economic sciences?

Vlaeminck, Sven; Herrmann, Lisa-Kristin - 2015

In our paper we summarise the findings of an empirical study in which a sample of 346 journals in economics and business studies were examined. We regard both the extent and the quality of journals' data policies, which should facilitate replications of published empirical research. The paper...

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The ontological status of shocks and trends in macroeconomics

Hoover, Kevin D. - 2013

Modern empirical macroeconomic models, known as structural autoregressions (SVARs) are dynamic models that typically claim to represent a causal order among contemporaneously valued variables and to merely represent non-structural (reduced-form) co-occurrence between lagged variables and...

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Of positivism and the history of economic thought

Caldwell, Bruce - 2013

The rhetoric of positivism had a profound effect on the worldview and practice of economists in the middle of the last century. Though this influence has greatly diminished, it still may be found in the attitude of many economists towards the history of their discipline. This paper traces the...

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Journals in economic sciences : paying lip service to reproducible research?

Vlaeminck, Sven; Podkrajac, Felix - 2017

The findings of numerous replication studies in economics have raised serious concerns regarding the credibility and reliability of published applied economic research. Literature suggests that economic research often is not replicable because (i) only a small proportion of journals in the field...

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The early history of program evaluation and the US Department of Labor

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2014

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A note on the principle of "normative individualismʺ

Schubert, Christian (contributor) - 2005

According to the principle of Normative Individualism, the evaluation of economic states and processes should be guided exclusively by the wishes of the individuals who are seen as the only bearer of values. Despite its intuitive appeal and its almost universal acceptance in normative economics...

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Economists, incentives, judgment, and empirical work

Colander, David C. (contributor) - 2008

This paper asks the question: Why has the "general-to-specific" cointegrated VAR approach as developed in Europe had only limited success in the US as a tool for doing empirical macroeconomics, where what might be called a "theory comes first" approach dominates? The reason this paper highlights...

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The Early History of Program Evaluation and the U.S. Department of Labor

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2014

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Teaching economics in a time and place of economic distress: the value of a pluralistic approach

Peterson, Janice - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 4, pp. 333-344

more pluralistic economics education. This paper explores the close connection between pluralism and student engagement … context of the economic crisis. The paper illustrates how this connection is articulated in the literature on pluralism and … between pluralism and the inclusiveness of economics course content and pedagogy. …

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The sovereign debt crisis - a transdisciplinary approach

Pilkington, Marc - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 4, pp. 369-397

We have chosen to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to debt, leading to a transdisciplinary analysis of sovereign debt. Disciplinary fields as varied as logic, accounting, finance, psychology, geopolitics, economics, statistics, ethics, rhetoric and political discourse analysis are mobilised...

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