| By: |
Ernest Aigner (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria);
Florentin Glötzl (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria);
Matthias Aistleitner (Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria);
Jakob Kapeller (Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) |
| 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. |
| Keywords: |
crisis, economics profession, economic journals, keyword analysis, paradigmatic development |
| Date: |
2018–02 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ico:wpaper:75&r=sog |