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In Tandem or Out of Sync? Academic Economics Research and Public Policy Measures
2014
Social Science Research Network
This paper investigates whether academic research attention to certain public policy related measures (including unemployment, inflation, bankruptcies, and GDP) is correlated with empirical measurements of the measures themselves. In other words, when unemployment rises, does academic research attention to the matter increase? Or do economists pursue research interests relatively uninfluenced by policy shocks on the ground, at least in the short run? Textanalysis based results imply that
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2516978
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