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• Thread: 1220 Goods vs 424 No Goods

1. Economist
   8e69
   

   It is kind of p@thetic tbh. A man in his 60s, has to falsify his data AND serve as tour guide for his editor, in order to publish a paper that quickly gets debunked.

   On the Chen and Kung 2019 QJE paper:
   "This is extremely suspicious. Speculating, it looks like the authors had a nice paper using provincial data, but a referee asked them to extend it to prefecture leaders. To fit their story, they needed to find an effect of land sales for secretaries (but not mayors), and an effect of GDP growth for mayors (but not secretaries). But maybe the data didn’t agree, and their RA had to falsify the mayor promotion data to get the ‘correct’ result. This wouldn’t be easy for referees to spot, since the replication files didn’t include spell-level data. But how else did they collect such error-ridden data that also just happened to produce results consistent with their story?"
   Source: https://michaelwiebe.com/blog/2021/02/replications

   Some true desperation there

   1 year ago # QUOTE 33 Volod 1 Vlad !

2. Economist
   513b
   

   QJE should definitely consider withdrawing their papers.

   1 year ago # QUOTE 0 Volod 0 Vlad !

3. Economist
   60b6
   

   So his papers are made up?

   1 year ago # QUOTE 1 Volod 0 Vlad !

4. Economist
   1823
   

   Who is the coauthor of his APSR paper?

   1 year ago # QUOTE 0 Volod 0 Vlad !

5. Economist
   47f2
   

   His best two pubs are fake. Not sure about the other less high-profile papers since he rarely shares his data for replication.

   So his papers are made up?

   1 year ago # QUOTE 5 Volod 0 Vlad !

6. Economist
   5312
   

   WOW...good for HKUST that the cheater has left

   1 year ago # QUOTE 1 Volod 0 Vlad !

7. Economist
   f49f
   

   He should leave the profession, not just HKUST

   WOW...good for HKUST that the cheater has left

   1 year ago # QUOTE 5 Volod 0 Vlad !

8. Economist
   3be1
   

   JK is biggest fraud in econ, and don't forget the biggest fraud in finance, CL. Why do HKU always attract cheaters?

   1 year ago # QUOTE 0 Volod 0 Vlad !

9. Economist
   513b
   

   CL is just a suspect, JK is proven guilty in these two cases.

   JK is biggest fraud in econ, and don't forget the biggest fraud in finance, CL. Why do HKU always attract cheaters?

   1 year ago # QUOTE 2 Volod 0 Vlad !

10. Economist
    46ec
    

    Very good, op strong.

    1 year ago # QUOTE 7 Volod 0 Vlad !

11. Economist
    fa03
    

    No idea what you are talking about. Hans Kung was someone with a backbone, who did not shy away from speaking up against authority. True, he could have published this JMP not as a book but in a good journal, but 'Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth' got a lot of attention among HRMs. When he visited Chicago in 1981, he almost got an offer. When I spoke to him later, he said he preferred staying in Germany because "the bread is better".

    1 year ago # QUOTE 1 Volod 7 Vlad !

12. Economist
    7a24
    

    What the f is this mumble jumble. How is this related to anything said in this thread.

    No idea what you are talking about. Hans Kung was someone with a backbone, who did not shy away from speaking up against authority. True, he could have published this JMP not as a book but in a good journal, but 'Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth' got a lot of attention among HRMs. When he visited Chicago in 1981, he almost got an offer. When I spoke to him later, he said he preferred staying in Germany because "the bread is better".

    1 year ago # QUOTE 3 Volod 2 Vlad !

13. Economist
    ce0a
    

    If you have solid evidence, write to the editors of these journals.

    Don’t be a dxxmbass who can only attack people anonymously.

    1 year ago # QUOTE 1 Volod 10 Vlad !

14. Economist
    6db8
    

    Using the Great Leap Famine of 1959–1961 as the context and associated data, James cogently demonstrates just how political institutions and policies could powerfully shape the economic behavior of government bureaucrats (in much the same way that managers in private enterprises are incentivized). His work is path-breaking, as it challenges (for the first time) the traditional belief that political radicalism is largely the dictator’s choice. James’ intellectual entrepreneurship was rewarded when the American Political Science Review—the top journal in political science—published his work; he is, in fact, the first (and thus far the only) academic from Asia to have disseminated in that journal.

    1 year ago # QUOTE 1 Volod 4 Vlad !

15. Economist
    a90f
    

    What the f is this mumble jumble. How is this related to anything said in this thread.

    No idea what you are talking about. Hans Kung was someone with a backbone, who did not shy away from speaking up against authority. True, he could have published this JMP not as a book but in a good journal, but 'Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth' got a lot of attention among HRMs. When he visited Chicago in 1981, he almost got an offer. When I spoke to him later, he said he preferred staying in Germany because "the bread is better".
    

    I gooded but for some reason my "good" does not appear. It's a subtle reference to Hans Küng, the great theologian

    1 year ago # QUOTE 1 Volod 2 Vlad !

16. Economist
    a90f
    

    And of course a series of subtle references to classic EJMR memes. Alas, all of them lost to this audience of young EJMRers.

    1 year ago # QUOTE 2 Volod 2 Vlad !

17. Economist
    04ff
    

    But he falsified his results by misrepresenting his main economereic specification (pretending to use a FE model)

    Using the Great Leap Famine of 1959–1961 as the context and associated data, James cogently demonstrates just how political institutions and policies could powerfully shape the economic behavior of government bureaucrats (in much the same way that managers in private enterprises are incentivized). His work is path-breaking, as it challenges (for the first time) the traditional belief that political radicalism is largely the dictator’s choice. James’ intellectual entrepreneurship was rewarded when the American Political Science Review—the top journal in political science—published his work; he is, in fact, the first (and thus far the only) academic from Asia to have disseminated in that journal.

    1 year ago # QUOTE 3 Volod 0 Vlad !

18. Economist
    04ff
    

    lmao kung is just an incredibly unlucky guy who keeps running into RAs that would falsify his data to create perfect results without his knowledge

    On the Chen and Kung 2019 QJE paper:
    "This is extremely suspicious. Speculating, it looks like the authors had a nice paper using provincial data, but a referee asked them to extend it to prefecture leaders. To fit their story, they needed to find an effect of land sales for secretaries (but not mayors), and an effect of GDP growth for mayors (but not secretaries). But maybe the data didn’t agree, and their RA had to falsify the mayor promotion data to get the ‘correct’ result. This wouldn’t be easy for referees to spot, since the replication files didn’t include spell-level data. But how else did they collect such error-ridden data that also just happened to produce results consistent with their story?"
    Source: https://michaelwiebe.com/blog/2021/02/replications

    1 year ago # QUOTE 13 Volod 1 Vlad !

19. Economist
    7e0a
    

    Faking data is his hobby, and the only thing he has been good at his entire adult life. What else do you expect him to do?

    It is kind of p@thetic tbh. A man in his 60s, has to falsify his data AND serve as tour guide for his editor, in order to publish a paper that quickly gets debunked.

    On the Chen and Kung 2019 QJE paper:
    "This is extremely suspicious. Speculating, it looks like the authors had a nice paper using provincial data, but a referee asked them to extend it to prefecture leaders. To fit their story, they needed to find an effect of land sales for secretaries (but not mayors), and an effect of GDP growth for mayors (but not secretaries). But maybe the data didn’t agree, and their RA had to falsify the mayor promotion data to get the ‘correct’ result. This wouldn’t be easy for referees to spot, since the replication files didn’t include spell-level data. But how else did they collect such error-ridden data that also just happened to produce results consistent with their story?"
    Source: https://michaelwiebe.com/blog/2021/02/replications

    Some true desperation there
    

    1 year ago # QUOTE 4 Volod 0 Vlad !

20. Economist
    5d70
    

    who cares. good luck on your industry job and failing academia LOL

    1 year ago # QUOTE 3 Volod 9 Vlad !

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