Open Research across Disciplines

How the principles of open research can be applied to your discipline

Economics

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Case Studies

UKRN case study: Economics

University of Reading case study: Economics of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions

Examples of open research practices

Open Data: Macroeconomics and studies of international trade require open data sharing and collaboration because informed outcomes require both multiple data sources and equal insights on the policy constraints for each national economy (https://op.europa.eu/s/oGPn). In line with this, there are open access reports on economic change and international trade available (https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro_en) as well as open datasets (https://www.wto.org/index.htm).

Resources

General Resources

Camerer, C. F., Dreber, A., Forsell, E., Ho, T.-H., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., et al. (2016). Evaluating replicability of laboratory experiments in economics. Science, 351(6280), 1433–1436. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf0918
Christensen, Garret, and Edward Miguel. 2018. “Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research.” Journal of Economic Literature, 56(3), 920-80. https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20171350
Hamermesh, D. S. (2007). Replication in Economics. Canadian Journal of Economics, 40(3), 715-733. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.00428.x
B. D. (2009). Open Access Economics Journals and the Market for Reproducible Economic Research. Economic Analysis and Policy, 39(1), 117-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0313-5926(09)50047-1
Vilhuber, L. (2020). Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics. Harvard Data Science Review, 2(4). Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics · Issue 2.4, Fall 2020 (mit.edu)
Legrand, N. (2022). “The empirical relevance of the competitive storage model” by Cafiero et al. (2011): Replication, robustness, and extension. Applied Economic Perspectives And Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13282

Open Methods

Miguel, E., Camerer, C., Casey, K., Cohen, J., Esterling, K. M., Gerber, A., … and Laitin, D. (2014). Promoting transparency in social science research. Science, 343(6166), 30-31. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1245317

Open Data

- https://www.data-archive.ac.uk
- https://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/data_sets
- Journal of Applied Econometrics Data Archive. http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/
Certification Agency for Scientific Code and Data. https://www.cascad.tech

Open Outputs

Preprint repositories.
- http://www.repec.org
- https://www.econstor.eu/dspace/
National Bureau of Economics Research publications, data, videos. https://www.nber.org/papers?page=1&perPage=50&sortBy=public_date
Wiki-Based Project with Access to Data, Resources and Replications for Empirical Articles. https://replication.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

This page is adapted and extended from: Farran, E. K., Silverstein, P., Ameen, A. A., Misheva, I., & Gilmore, C. (2020, December 15). Open Research: Examples of good practice, and resources across disciplines. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/3r8hb