Stochastic Trend

The new article usage dashboards are a nice feature of Elsevier journals. Here is the dashboard for my 2013 article in Energy Economics : ...

I've spent the last couple of days trying to replicate results in RATS that Chunbo produced using STATA . In the process we found a lo...

Interesting blogpost on the differences . These are of course the extreme poles between someone doing solo-authored work in economic theory...

Economists who are blogging about economics research can ask to have their blog included in Econacademics.org . Then, any post that refers t...

The new version of the Penn World Table - version 8.0 - has recently been made available and is now hosted at University of Groningen in t...

A new tool from Elsevier gives you information on suitable journals for your paper, but more importantly average times to first editorial ...

My paper with Kerstin Enflo: "Causality between energy and output in the long-run" has been accepted to be published in Energy Ec...

I guess this can apply to post-docs and assistant professors too :)

In the US, a proposal is not a requirement for applying to do a PhD. Usually, students do one to two years of coursework before writing the...

I was just reading another essay by Paul Graham, which I thought was worth linking . A lot of this is true for academic research too. The b...

I wrote about ORCID - a global system of free unique researcher IDs - more than a year ago. You can finally now register for ORCID and I j...

In the past I usually put out a working paper version of my research at the same time as submitting the paper to a journal. I assumed that i...

Unlike North America, applying to do a PhD in the social sciences and humanities here in Australia requires lining up a supervisor (=advisor...

Back in 2010 I blogged on John Cochrane's writing tips . Here are the slides from Daniel Hamermesh's presentation on how to publish...

I previously blogged about how highly downloaded working papers lead to higher downloads of other papers in the same series . So I was inter...

The QJE is currently widely regarded as the top economics journal. It is also well-known for leading the trend towards "desk-rejection...

In economics there is a very strong tradition of working papers and journals do not have a problem with a working paper version of the paper...

A great post on becoming a researcher . Well, it's actually titled: "How to find problems to work on", which is something I ha...

Advice from Daron Acemoglu - editor of Econometrica and Clark Medal winner - on how to write papers and get published.

The Johansen cointegration procedure is one of the most popular methods of testing for cointegration . The tests and estimation are carried ...