The use of evidence and economic analysis in policymaking is on the rise, and accounting
standard setting and financial regulation are no exception. This article discusses the …

The past decade has been marked by concerns regarding the replicability and
reproducibility of published research in the social sciences. Publicized failures to replicate …

Most anomalies fail to hold up to currently acceptable standards for empirical finance. With
microcaps mitigated via NYSE breakpoints and value-weighted returns, 65% of the 452 …

Researchers make hundreds of decisions about data collection, preparation, and analysis in
their research. We use a many‐analysts approach to measure the extent and impact of these …

SMARTRIQS is an open-source solution that allows researchers to design and implement
interactive online experiments using the popular survey platform Qualtrics. Unlike other …

What was once broadly viewed as an impossibility—learning from experimental data in
economics—has now become commonplace. Governmental bodies, think tanks, and …

We investigate how often replication studies are published in empirical economics and what
types of journal articles are replicated. We find that between 1974 and 2014 0.1% of …

Reanalyses of empirical studies and replications in new contexts are important for scientific
progress. Journals in economics increasingly require authors to provide data and code …

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I provide a summary description of the history and state of reproducibility and replicability in
the academic field of economics. I include a discussion of more general replicability and …