Online accessibility of academic articles and the diversity of economics

Konferenzbeitrag

A key aspect of generating new ideas is drawing from different elements of past knowledge and combining them into a new idea. In such a process, the diversity of ideas plays a central role. This paper examines the empirical question of how the internet affected the diversity of new research by making the existing literature accessible online. The internet marks a technological shock which affects how academic scientist search for and browse through published documents. Using article-level data from economics journals for the period 1991 to 2009, we document how online accessibility lead academic economists to draw from a more diverse set of literature for their articles, and to write articles which incorporated more diverse contents.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Deutsch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2012: Neue Wege und Herausforderungen für den Arbeitsmarkt des 21. Jahrhunderts - Session: The Economics of Science and Education ; No. E05-V3

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Role of Economics; Role of Economists; Market for Economists ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Boppart, Timo ; Staub, Kevin
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/62040
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ