Monday, May 6, 2019

Journal Reporting Times, EJMR vs. Self-Reported Stats from Journals.

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Methodology: I took the self-reported data I collected here (which come from  from ejmr here ), and compared to the official journal stats ...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Ranking Economic Journals by Speed, Updated

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I decided to update my previous ranking on economics journals ranked by speed . In the table below, # is the journal's rank by citatio...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

On the Uses (and Abuses) of Economath: The Malthusian Models

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Many American undergraduates in Economics interested in doing a Ph.D. are surprised to learn that the first year of an Econ Ph.D. feels much...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Reminder: Most Published Research is Probably Wrong!

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At least in some way. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of great research out there. However, it has occured to me that many people ar...
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Monday, December 11, 2017

Janet Yellen's Tenure, in Retrospect (Has the Economy Really Recovered?)

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On Twitter, Paul Romer lauds the job that Janet Yellen has done, writing that " In an extraordinarily difficult political context, J. Y...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

An Economist's Take on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies: It's a Giant Scam and the Mother of All Bubbles

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Bitcoin has climbed over $10,000 (when I first drafted this post last week, it was at just $8,200). The cryptocurrency market now appears li...
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Sunday, November 19, 2017

A comment on "The Long-term Decline in US Manufacturing" by Jeff Frankel

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Jeff Frankel guest posts over at  Econbrowser  about "The Long-Term Decline in US Manufacturing" The theme is a familiar one ...
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