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Unexplained economic puzzles?
An important field in current research is the yet unexplained
Equity premium puzzle
originally published by Mehra, Prescott (1985). Considere a multiperiod investment consumption equilibrium model (...
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Economics' position in the hierarchy of sciences (hard vs soft)
There is actually no clear cut consensus on where Economics belongs (although it is fair to say most would likely put it into category of social science). Some authors consider it to be science, some ...
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Is it necessary to ask permission before including someone in the acknowledgements of a economic research paper?
In short, no it is not necessary. I have never asked anyone for permission and I have never been asked. The people I thank usually have not read my paper (rarely anyone does, to be honest), but we ...
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Journal that sum up a research area
In addition to the +1 list provided by tdm, journal of economic perspectives often publishes literature reviews and quasi-literature reviews.
The goal is JEP is to fill the gap between different ...
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Typical Farming Economics Resource
I don't have many books to share but there is the website on Farm economy data from the USDA.
Farm Labor
USDA Economic Research Service (ERS)
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-labor/
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Qualitative methods in Economics
Good question!
Qualitative methods (QM henceforth) have become more widespread in the recent decades, according to a 2014's survey in the Journal of Economic Surveys. QM include, among others, in-...
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What are the economic peer-reviewed journals devoted to literature review?
The Annual Review of Economics is a nice one to look into
https://www.annualreviews.org/journal/economics
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What are the economic peer-reviewed journals devoted to literature review?
Elsevier has a series of Handbooks in Economics that contain field/topic-specific survey chapters.
Sometimes the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics has entries that are helpful for literature review ...
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The 2015 Economics "Nobel": Angus Deaton
Deaton's "Understanding Consumption" (1993) was one of the major sources I used when doing seminar work for my master's. In the end I decided to write my thesis about a different (somewhat related) ...
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Is there an index that describes how differentiated a product is?
To be honest I am not sure how Henry's answer could be the accepted one. The HHI is meant to measure market concentration that is a different concept from product differentiation: in an industry ...
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Unexplained economic puzzles?
Another unsolved puzzle in economics is the
Dividend puzzle
studied first by Fischer Black(1976), which evolves from the Modigliani-Miller theorems.
Considere well known models for equilibrium in ...
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How do you keep up to date and find the most relevant papers?
Seminars and conferences are the best ways to get exposure to working papers, in addition to following specific authors. (Some of my colleagues also follow economists on Twitter, where they sometimes ...
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What are some of the books that ambitious high school students study to advance in econ and research?
The most direct path from high school to being a research economist will probably lead you to taking standard economics courses, and I'm not sure working through the standard curriculum first is the ...
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What are the defining characteristics of applied microeconomics papers?
There is no universally agreed upon definition of "applied microeconomics", but if you follow the description by Brown University's Department of Economics,
The use of data and econometric ...
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How do I elegantly upload my working paper on SSRN?
Will registering SSRN with a private email address impact credibility or other dimensions? I am a Ph.D. candidate and have an institutional mailbox. But considering that I am about to graduate, the ...
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Research question formation
I want to know if it's valid to talk about the economic growth and development of a city instead of a country
In principle there is nothing wrong with narrowing your research question down to ...
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Economics PhD graduate?
Your claim that most go into academia is wrong. From the top universities, about half to two-thirds go into academia, but from most universities, most go to non-academic careers. It's simple ...
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Are there any studies that show that "Affirmative Action" hurts the economy?
Very interesting question. Those at cafehayek.com seem to dislike it a lot but don't really back it up which is disappointing. At first glance, it is very easy to see how affirmative action could hurt ...
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The 2015 Economics "Nobel": Angus Deaton
I am currently doing my graduate studies in Economics; and I came across the name of Deaton in Microeconomics class the very first time. In my opinion, his work became the integral part of modern ...
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What are some of the books that ambitious high school students study to advance in econ and research?
I think as a starting point I would suggest the following books
G. Mankiw: Principles of Microeconomics
This book provides introductory understanding of economics, it is recommended for people ...
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What are the economic peer-reviewed journals devoted to literature review?
I think the Journal of Economic Literature is your best bet. The Journal of Economic Perspectives might also have some things of interest.
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get statistics about the research intensity of an industry
Perhaps someone with more expertise on the matter can answer your question more directly, but in the mean time:
In the literature on innovation, it is fairly common to use patent data to measure the ...
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Why are countries in the Gulf rich but lagging in technological innovation?
Update
Resource Curse literature attempts to address the issues you are raising, take a look at here and here.
Here is an interesting example of a technology transfer case.
Original answer
They do,...
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What are some database like websites about lower levels of economics (micro/macro) for a research project?
Fama-French library
has good data on which you can test your first Fama-French regression model.
I have found this video on Youtube that might help you with this first project.
Ps.: It would help a ...
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Sources to know about latest research
The National Bureau of Economic Research is a good source for the latest in economic research: https://nber.org/
You can also go to Brookings institute: https://www.brookings.edu/
Federal Reserve ...
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Making sure the p-values of my OLS estimates are correct
The answer to your question:
I wanted to know if it is possible to have an exhaustive set of things I need to test to be reasonably confident about the p-values I get, both overall and for each ...
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Journal that sum up a research area
Here are few:
The Journal of Economic Literature
The Journal of Economic Surveys
The Annual Review of Economics
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