THE MATTHEW EFFECT DEFINED AND TESTED FOR THE 100 MOST PROLIFIC ECONOMISTS
Richard Tol
No FNU-143, Working Papers from Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University
Abstract:
The Matthew effect has that often-cited papers/authors are cited more often. I use the statistical theory of the growth of firms to test whether the fame of papers and authors indeed exhibits increasing returns to scale, and confirm this hypothesis for the 100 most prolific economists.
Keywords: Matthew effect; increasing returns to scale; citation analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2007-08, Revised 2007-08
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