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We replicate the study of Tabak & Cajueiro (2007): "Are the crude oil markets becoming weakly efficient over time? A test for time-varying long-range dependence in prices and volatility" published in Energy Economics 29, pp. 28-36. The results have been mostly confirmed. Specifically, we have...
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reproducible. Correspondingly, recent years have seen an increase in replication studies published in economics journals. Despite … encourage more replication research, and to exploit the scientific value of existing replication studies. …
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of the replication necessary for 'success'. A researcher's replication will be 'successful' according to context …
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Six randomized control trials were published simultaneously in one issue of the 'American Economic Journal: Applied Economics' in 2015. The studies show no or minimal impact from providing microloans to clients and have led many researchers and policy makers to conclude that microfinance has...
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This article reports the results of a replication of Bobbitt-Zeher's 2007 article 'The Gender Income Gap and the Role …
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Replication research is a valuable, yet often misunderstood, tool for increasing our understanding of promising … research findings. In this short paper the authors discuss their principles for conducting replication research, explain how … they chose a candidate study for replication, describe their replication analysis robustness checks, and give an overview …
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In 2011, the Annual Report of the Editor of the American Economic Review reported that the journal's data-code archive was functioning well, and no changes were made to the archive rules. This was based on an audit of the archive that the Editor had commissioned. In point of fact, all was not...
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Replication research can be used to explore original study results that researchers consider questionable, but it … is to design a replication plan open to both supporting the original findings and uncovering potential problems. The … purpose of this paper is to provide replication researchers with an objective list of checks or tests to consider when …
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argues for more emphasis on replication that specifically assesses whether the results reported in empirical studies are … diagnostic tests for misspecification. A replication plan is briefly outlined to illustrate what this would involve in practice …
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Rostam-Afschar (2014) analyzes the impact of the deregulation of the German Trade and Crafts Code of 2004 on entrepreneurial activity, using German microcensus (MC) data. He finds a positive effect on market entry and self-employment and no change in exit probabilities. As these results...
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