O impacto dos blogues económicos
Tendo por referência o "paper" " The Impact of Economics Blogs " (veja também aqui ), de David McKenzie and Berk Ozler, Lawrence Addad, Director do Institute of Development Studies (Reino Unido) faz esta interessante reflexão sobre os blogues económicos , em que destaco as seguintes conclusões: "1. Do they affect the dissemination of economics research? (Yes.) They note that RePEc (Research Papers in Economics-a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 75 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics) working paper downloads increase by 20-30 fold after a paper has been mentioned on a popular blog. More formally they regress abstract views on papers mentioned in the top 50 blogs and allow for lags and reverse causality and find big impacts of blog mentions on views. 2. Do they affect the reputation of their creators? (Yes.) Here they use a list of most admired economists (derived from a poll of US academics) and ...