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Open Research across Disciplines
How the principles of open research can be applied to your disciplineEconomics
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Case Studies
UKRN case study: Economics
University of Reading case study: Economics of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions
Examples of open research practices
Open Data: Macroeconomics and studies of international trade require open data sharing and collaboration because informed outcomes require both multiple data sources and equal insights on the policy constraints for each national economy (https://op.europa.eu/s/oGPn). In line with this, there are open access reports on economic change and international trade available (https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro_en) as well as open datasets (https://www.wto.org/index.htm).
Resources
General Resources
- Camerer, C. F., Dreber, A., Forsell, E., Ho, T.-H., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., et al. (2016). Evaluating replicability of laboratory experiments in economics. Science, 351(6280), 1433–1436. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf0918
- Christensen, Garret, and Edward Miguel. 2018. “Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research.” Journal of Economic Literature, 56(3), 920-80. https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20171350
- Hamermesh, D. S. (2007). Replication in Economics. Canadian Journal of Economics, 40(3), 715-733. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.00428.x
- B. D. (2009). Open Access Economics Journals and the Market for Reproducible Economic Research. Economic Analysis and Policy, 39(1), 117-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0313-5926(09)50047-1
- Vilhuber, L. (2020). Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics. Harvard Data Science Review, 2(4). https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.4f6b9e67
- Legrand, N. (2022). “The empirical relevance of the competitive storage model” by Cafiero et al. (2011): Replication, robustness, and extension. Applied Economic Perspectives And Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13282
Open Methods
- Miguel, E., Camerer, C., Casey, K., Cohen, J., Esterling, K. M., Gerber, A., … and Laitin, D. (2014). Promoting transparency in social science research. Science, 343(6166), 30-31. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1245317
Open Data
- https://www.data-archive.ac.uk
- https://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/data_sets
- Journal of Applied Econometrics Data Archive. http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/
- Certification Agency for Scientific Code and Data. https://www.cascad.tech
- Economics resources (standards, databases, data policies) registered in FAIRsharing: https://fairsharing.org/browse/subject?term=Economics
Open Outputs
- Preprint repositories.
- National Bureau of Economics Research publications, data, videos. https://www.nber.org/papers?page=1&perPage=50&sortBy=public_date
- Wiki-Based Project with Access to Data, Resources and Replications for Empirical Articles. https://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
This page is adapted and extended from: Farran, E. K., Silverstein, P., Ameen, A. A., Misheva, I., & Gilmore, C. (2020, December 15). Open Research: Examples of good practice, and resources across disciplines. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/3r8hb