Stochastic Trend

For the first time in a decade , I updated my spreadsheet on downloads and abstract views per person and per item on RePEc. The downward tre...

I have a new paper with my Crawford School colleague Bjoern Dressel published in Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies (open access). The ...

Now and then it's time to give up on a project. In September 2018, I attended a climate econometrics conference at Frascati near Rome....

That is the title of a paper in the American Economic Review by Motty Perry and Philip Reny . They present five axioms that they argue a g...

I'm doing quite a bit of background work for our School Review , a review of the Future of Asia-Pacific Economics etc. The following ta...

I'm working on a new bibliometrics paper with Richard Tol . We are using Glenn Ellison's data set on economists at the top 50 U.S....

Back in 2010 I posted that the RePEc ranking of economics institutions needed to be adjusted by size. Better quality institutions do tend...

I got a request for the data in our 1997 paper in Nature on climate change. I didn't think I'd be able to send the actual data we ...

I wrote a long comment on this blogpost by Ludo Waltman but it got eaten by their system, so I'm rewriting it in a more expanded form ...

The Australian reported a couple of days ago that the University of Wollongong gave a PhD for a thesis by an anti-vaccination activist, Jud...

Interesting paper from my biology colleagues at ANU on the effects of "p-hacking" - searching for more significant results by lo...

From " Accelerating Scientific Publication in Biology ": Somewhat tongue – in - cheek, let’s imagine a contemporary editorial d...

Does measuring something change it?  In quantum mechanics measurement disturbs what is being measured, which is referred to as the observ...

Kevin Staub presented this paper today at ANU. They download data on all papers in fifty core economics journals over the decades of the 1...

I have posted a new bibliometric working paper , which investigates how well we can predict future cumulative citations from the first cita...

The Asia and the Pacific Policy Society is an academic society set up in association with Crawford School's flagship journal, Asia a...

After seeing that Alison Booth's paper from the Quarterly Journal of Economics was the most downloaded paper from ResearchGate at C...

A coup for Monash University -  John List to take up fractional appointment at Monash ! One motivation for this move would be the ...

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

If downloading papers from Springer = working then this paper by Wang et al has fascinating evidence on when researchers are working aroun...