Methodology studies


(1) A check of Maddison's gdp data
Benford's law with some range problems
Conference peper 2010


(2) An essay about publication bias and strikes
Conference paper 2012


(3)Regression Costs Fall, Mining Ratios Rise, Publication Bias Looms, and Techniques Get Fancier:
Reflections on Some Trends in Empirical Macroeconomis
Econ Journal Watch 10(2), 136-56. 2013
First version was termed: The mining ratio in applied macroeconomics


(4) Simulating an empirical paper by the rational economist
Empirical Economics 50, 1383-1407, 2016 (DOI 10.1007/s00181-015-0971-6)
Earlier versions (with similar titles) have been given as keynotes at
the EPCS-2014 in Cambridge (April) and the MAER-Net 2014 Colloquium in Athens (September).
Also Economics Working Paper 2013-27 from Department of Economics Århus University

Programs for a replication of simulation on separate page


(5) A model of the representative economist, as researcher and policy advisor
European Journal of Political Economy 54, 6-15, 2018


(6) The kernel-pair method of causal analysis
Background paper, May 2023


(7) The economic model of man and the representative economic researcher
Chapter 37, 259-63 in Cristian Bjørnskov and Richard Jong-a-Pin eds.,
Encyclopedia of Public Choice. Edward Elgar 2025


(8) Methods used in economic research:
An empirical study of trends and level
Economics. The Open-Access, Open-Assessment e-journal 15, 28-42 2021


(9) Research methods in economics
Chapter 40 pp 284-91 in Theodoros Iosifides ed., Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Research Methods in the Social Sciences. Edward Elgar April 2026


(10) Institutional indices
Distributions and measuremnt errors
Working paper, April 2026



See also:
Papers on meta-methods