Please guys, vote for RED RED GREEN!!
Germany needs even more culturally incompatible refugees and welfare paras1tes!
And I need my UBI to be financed!
-Southern europoor
We have had red-green before. Experience teaches that such a government means war and social cuts.
Scheuer was 1 in under 40 List. 5 years is certainly arbitrary but I can’t say that Moll and Scheuer are the saviors of German Econ and should top the list. At least not more than anyone else in the top 10 this year.
I'd say they're as good as it gets for Europe, really success stories of people that could be attracted back from the US. They are certainly much better than Strulik, Hasan (who are they even?), Kasy, but I agree probably in the same equivalence class as the others in the top 10.
As an economist, are your really arguing against quantifying output? That seems silly to me.Well, the measurement of output is an unresolved issue in the public sector. And now, sit down.
Ah, we shouldn’t measure output of the public sector then? Clearly 400 IQ thinking!
So let me get back to my question, I was wondering about it for a while. Why Germany does not have 1-2 world class universities that would compete with Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, LSE in econ? The wealthiest European economy with plenty of great economists around the world but not a single top 20 econ department. Why is that? I am a non-German European located in North America and it would be really great to have such places in the old continent. Where else if not in Germany.
Yeah I think the 5 year ranking just fluctuates a little depending on when top 5‘s come out. As someone above pointed out, I think Scheuer was number one in 2019 because he had a bunch of top 5‘s in 2016 that now just dropped out. So you see people like Jaimovich on rank 90, Dorn doesn’t even make it in the top 100, etc.
This.
A ranking that considers only the last 5 years tends to punish people who go for quality, who might have e.g. two top fives in one year and then several years of dearth. While it rewards the Struliks of this world who reliably churn out a couple of B-journal publications every year, so sicher wie das Amen in der Kirche (and same reasoning for the Potrafkes of this world, and their C journals).
(Not to mention the excessive penalty of dividing by the number of coauthors)
This is why the benchmark ranking should be counting only A and A+ publications.
As if you were able to find 100+ German economists under 40 with enough A and A+ publications to make a sensible ranking ... and I suppose the same is true for 100+ German economists of any age with enough A/A+ in the last five years.
Yeah I think the 5 year ranking just fluctuates a little depending on when top 5‘s come out. As someone above pointed out, I think Scheuer was number one in 2019 because he had a bunch of top 5‘s in 2016 that now just dropped out. So you see people like Jaimovich on rank 90, Dorn doesn’t even make it in the top 100, etc.
It’s last 5 years plus forthcoming (if people bother to enter those into the system). But agree that a 10-year version might be better.
There used to be an option to sort only by a+ and a. I tried this: I have published in both but did still not show up at all because this was only re-sorting among those in the list based on the standard criteria. It’s weird to see these researchers without any a+/a publications high up. I chose to ignore this ranking altogether
This is why the benchmark ranking should be counting only A and A+ publications.
My guess that they exist but just don’t Show up in the current ranking at all
This is why the benchmark ranking should be counting only A and A+ publications.As if you were able to find 100+ German economists under 40 with enough A and A+ publications to make a sensible ranking ... and I suppose the same is true for 100+ German economists of any age with enough A/A+ in the last five years.
Of you can, just go to the 2019 ranking and apply that filter. Maybe once they update the website one can do all those things.
That (A/A+) is the ranking that I and many others I talk to use for evaluating people relatively for tenure, promotion, hiring, etc. It matters only at the margin if at all, but if I have to use a ranking that's what I'll be using.
This is why the benchmark ranking should be counting only A and A+ publications.As if you were able to find 100+ German economists under 40 with enough A and A+ publications to make a sensible ranking ... and I suppose the same is true for 100+ German economists of any age with enough A/A+ in the last five years.
I find it interesting how many names I do not know. In the the under 40 list: place 6, place 14, 18, 21, 29, 32, 38, 43.
This is certainly just my ignorance, but if I google these mystery scientists it appears that they do not publish in journals with "economic" in its title but are more focused on political science or psychology.
Will there be an option to sort for economists on the website?