Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/179438 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
ICAE Working Paper Series No. 75
Publisher: 
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE), Linz
Abstract: 
Has the global financial crisis of 2007ff had a visible impact on the economics profession? To answer this question we employ a bibliometric approach and compare the content and orientation of economic literature before and after the crisis with reference to two different samples: A large-scale sample consisting of more than 440,000 articles published between 1956 and 2016 and a smaller sample of 400 top-cited papers before and after the crisis. Our results suggest that - unlike the Great Depression of the 1930s - the current financial crisis did not lead to any major theoretical or methodological changes in contemporary economics, although the topic of financial instability received increased attention after the crisis.
Subjects: 
crisis
economics profession
economic journals
keyword analysis
paradigmatic development
JEL: 
A14
B20
B26
G01
N00
N01
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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