We're always complaining about economists who ended up overplaced by sucking up to someone. How about the flip side? Who are the most underplaced people - folks at second tier schools who belong in top departments?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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I am sure many people believe they are underplaced, but the truth is after the first 5-7 years very few people remain underplaced.. Some choose to stay where they are (Mark Huggett @ Georgetown and R.Rogerson @ ASU come to mind).. Mark Aguiar was very much underplaced at some point (Boston FED) but no more.. He is at Rochester and probably moving to Berkeley or Stanford soon..
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Could look at something like the coupe rankings http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~tcoupe/update/top1000p.html and see who is not at a top place.
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^ That ranking is now quite dated. The RePEc ones are current, although not complete.
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The repec ratings are heavily skewed toward number of citations rather than quality of publications, and so favors old guys in fields that cite a lot (aging finance types) over, e.g. young theorists. Besides, if the first poster is right that few people remain underplaced, then anyone in the top 50 or 100 of coupe's list that is still not at a top school is really under placed. I'm too lazy to check who that would be, though.
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According to that ranking, Christopher Ruhm is the 77th top economist, above people like Larry Samuelson, Randall Wright, Stephen Morris, Newey, Kocherlakota or Duffie. Either he is very underplaced at U NC Greensboro or this ranking is shit.
(I guess he likes the ranking since he cites it on the first like of "Honors" in his CV).
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Anyone who puts a ", PhD" at the end of his/her name is a douche
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The repec ratings are heavily skewed toward number of citations rather than quality of publications, and so favors old guys in fields that cite a lot (aging finance types) over, e.g. young theorists. Besides, if the first poster is right that few people remain underplaced, then anyone in the top 50 or 100 of coupe's list that is still not at a top school is really under placed. I'm too lazy to check who that would be, though.
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Looking more into it (I am not the quoted one), I see that citations account for 15 of the 31 criteria used. I suspect there is a high correlation between citation numbers and quality of publication. So I would not qualify this as skewed towards citations.
But in any case, people prefer the ranking that is the most favorable to them anyway...
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Fabien Postel-Vinay
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Repec ranking doesn't list affiliation. Based on the coupe list top 50, the obvious top candidates for most underplaced are Gali Jordi at Pompeu Fabra, Herve Moulin at Rice, and Arthur Lewbel at Boston College.
Posted 1 year ago #