EconPapers Search

Search options

• By default terms (words) in the text boxes, 'Free text search', 'Author' and 'Keywords and title' are NEARed and terms in 'JEL-code' are ANDed. That is only documents containing all of the terms will be returned by the search. NEAR gives a higher weight to words that appear close to each other.
• Boolean searches
  • The logical operators AND, NEAR, OR and NOT are available.
  • Use parentheses to build up complicated boolean expressions.
• The free text search searches the abstracts as well as title, keyword and author information for the papers.
• The fielded search options allow you to restrict the search to the author, title and keyword or JEL-code fields of the papers.
• The free text and keywords and title searches allow searching for word forms or phrases by selecting the search for phrase or word forms option.
  • Truncate the word with * to search for word forms. mone* returns papers where money or monetary occurs
  • Separate the words with OR, AND or NEAR when search for variations of several words. bay* AND mone* locates douments using Bayesian (Bayes, Bayesian) methods to investigate monetary (money, monetary) issues.
  • Exact matches are found if no words are truncated with *. E.g monetary policy.
• The search for JEL-codes matches exactly on the JEL codes for the papers. See the JEL codes link in the side bar for a list of valid JEL codes. Note that this link offer an easier search for single JEL codes. About 25% of the items have JEL codes (1/3 of the working papers).
• The different search options are ANDed by default but you can specify that they are ORed instead. Baye* in keywords and title and C11 in JEL-code can be ORed to find papers on Bayesian analysis.
• Choose a time span in 'Modified last' to find recent papers. The date used for this can either be the date the paper is written (working papers) or published (journal articles), that is the creation date, or the date the paper was added to the database or the data updated (metadata).
  Note that the creation date is only availabe for a subset of the papers and papers without creation date are excluded if this option is used. In addition, the creation date is frequently only given as the year (2007) or the month (2007-05) of creation, these are considered to be created on the first day of the year and month, respectively.
• The scope of the search (which documents to search) is specified by checking the different document types on the right. The search can also be restricted to documents with downloadable files.

Search history

• Previous searches can be combined by checking the search, specifying if they should be ANDed or ORed and clicking the Combine Searches button. The union of the scopes for the searches is always used when they are combined.
• A previous search can be retrieved by clicking on the search.
• The number of hits returned, the sort order and if only recent documents should be returned can be modified when combining or retrieving previous searches.