Das Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Fakultät Staatswissenschaften) legt hiermit seinen neunzehnten eigenständigen Forschungsbericht vor. Wir möchten mit unserem Bericht alle Interessenten an unserer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit in kompakter Form über die...

We provide a critical analysis of the adoption of the US "top-five model" by European economics academia. This model prioritizes publications in five elite journals, heavily influencing the career trajectories of doctoral students and researchers. It highlights the inefficiencies and social...

This article identifies the two approaches to defining a book review. The first defines a book review as a text published in the 'Book Reviews' section of a journal. The second approach involves specifying criteria that a text must satisfy to qualify as a book review and assessing whether a...

We investigate whether artificial intelligence can address the peer review crisis in economics by analyzing 27,090 evaluations of 9,030 unique submissions using a large language model (LLM). The experiment systematically varies author characteristics (e.g., affiliation, reputation, gender) and...

Das Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Fakultät Staatswissenschaften) legt hiermit seinen neunzehnten eigenständigen Forschungsbericht vor. Wir möchten mit unserem Bericht alle Interessenten an unserer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit in kompakter Form über die...

D. Acemoğglu, S. Johnson und J. Robinson erhielten 2024 den Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften für ihre Forschung zu den Auswirkungen von Institutionen auf den Wohlstand von Nationen. Sie erweiterten die klassische Wirtschaftstheorie um die institutionelle und politökonomische...

This paper examines the data sources and methodologies used in economic research on corruption by analyzing 339 journal articles published in 2022 that include Journal of Economic Literature codes. The paper identifies the most commonly used data types, sources, and geographical foci, as well as...

In den letzten Monaten sind zahlreiche Nutzer/innen von X (ehemals Twitter) zu Bluesky gewechselt oder nutzen inzwischen beide Plattformen parallel. So meldeten sich bspw. Politiker/innen wie die Bundesaußenministerin Annalena Baerbock oder Marie Agnes Strack- Zimmermann sowie diverse...

We investigate gender differences in the time taken to accept empirical articles. On average, female-authored economics articles take notably longer to accept. Acceptance delay is nine weeks longer when solo-authored and five weeks longer for all female teams. This gender gap cannot be...

D. Acemoğlu, S. Johnson und J. Robinson erhielten 2024 den Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften für ihre Forschung zu den Auswirkungen von Institutionen auf den Wohlstand von Nationen. Sie erweiterten die klassische Wirtschaftstheorie um die institutionelle und politökonomische...

This study contributes to the growing debate over the narrow ideological discourse in economics education and calls for greater pluralism. Using a randomized controlled experiment with 2,735 economics students from 10 countries, we examine how authority and ideological biases - shaped by...

Aus Anlass des 80. Geburtstags des Buchs "Der Weg zur Knechtschaft" von F. A. Hayek haben Veronika Grimm, Stefan Kolev und Jens Weidmann auf dessen Kernbotschaften aufmerksam gemacht. Dabei relativieren sie den Ideologievorwurf, der dem Buch gemacht wird, indem sie in Frageform evidenzbasierte...

Complex systems may be a useful methodological tool to address "challenges for research in development". There is a huge and growing literature on complex systems and economic theory that might be related to early intuitions of classical economists on the workings of capitalist economies....

Purpose - The modernization of China's economy is an integral part of Chinese-style modernization. According to the principle of unifying theoretical, historical and practical logic, theoretically explaining the modernization of China's economy is both a political necessity and a higher...

This article is the first of a series that offers a new paradigm for economics, the "multilevel paradigm," using generalized Darwinism as its theoretical framework. Generalized Darwinism refers to all processes that combine the ingredients of variation, selection, and replication - not just...

We estimate the robustness reproducibility of key results from 17 non-experimental AER papers published in 2013 (8 papers) and 2022/23 (9 papers). We find that many of the results are not robust, with no improvement over time. The fraction of significant robustness tests (p0.05) varies between...

Equivalence testing methods can provide statistically significant evidence that relationships are practically equal to zero. I demonstrate their necessity in a systematic reproduction of estimates defending 135 null claims made in 81 articles from top economics journals. 37-63% of these...