Christian Zimmermann

Is this due to renters having lower life expectancy?

Launched 30 years ago tomorrow, EDIRC is a directory of economics institutions that expanded from a list of URLs to a metadata provider for RePEc and a one-stop-shop for info about members, alumni and their publications for over 15K institutions and associations.

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FRED Blog:

The latest Penn World Tables in FRED

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There are 7090 economists registered with RePEc with a publication in a top 5 journal (excluding AER P&P), or just below 10%

https;//authors.repec.org

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Over 73'000 authors have now registered with RePEc

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FRED Blog:

Venezuela’s lost productivity
Output per worker compared with other oil-producing countries

fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2026/03/vene...

How to get your work listed on RePEc RePEc has grown to a huge bibliographic database of Economics, now with over 3.4 million works listed. How has all this been indexed. More importantly, how can you get your research output listed o…

How to get your works listed on RePEc is a FAQ. The basic principle is that the publisher does that. But if the publisher does not, there are still options, as described in this old blog post

blog.repec.org/2021/03/04/h...

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You can also advertise it here ideas.repec.org/v/

About now is a great time to make sure your RePEc author profile is up to date for the February statistics.

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NEP announces new economics working papers in over 100 fields. If you see some area not covered, you can volunteer to be editor for it. It is simpler to do than what you would think.

nep.repec.org

#RePEc #EconSky #OA #openaccess

Having an open version indexed in RePEc (and your RePEc profile) allows us to link them and be visible wherever RePEc data is used.

FRED Blog:

Differences in cost of living across the US:
Regional price parities by state and metro area for 2024

fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2026/02/diff...

The NEP report NEP-URE Urban and Real Estate Economics has been split in two:
NEP-UEP Urban Economics and Policy
NEP-HRE Housing and Real Estate
Subscribe at nep.repec.org (available later on BlueSky)

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NEP has a few new field reports you can subscribe to, not yet on BlueSky, though:
NEP-IAF International Activities of Firms
NEP-MID Minorities Research (Ethnic, LGBTQ+, Disabilities)
NEP-MIN Mining

nep.repec.org

#dailyRePEc #economics #mining #minorities #lgbtq

RePEc infrastructure is often sponsored. For example, EconPapers is hosted by the School of Business at Örebro University.

econpapers.repec.org

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Advertise your seminars on the Economics Virtual Seminar Calendar

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Advertise your seminars on the Economics Virtual Seminar Calendar

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FRED Blog:

State and metro employment: Fourth quarter 2025

fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2026/02/stat...

Users are reporting that some functionalities of MyIDEAS are broken. Apologies, this will be fixed as soon as I find some time.

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But ... Mask is your name. Something must be behind it.

When you search for "author (year)" on IDEAS, for example "Smith (1776)", you get the reference you would expect.

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Substracting retractions from author statistics is on the to-do list.

FRED Blog:

The link between interest rates and exchange rates
The uncovered interest parity

fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2026/02/the-...

AI tools mostly do not identify themselves to the sites they link to. RePEc sites had a massive increase in traffic in the last six months. Do you see links to RePEc in your prompt results?

logec.repec.org

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There are now 5.3 million research works listed in RePEc: journal articles, working papers, books, book chapters and software components.

econpapers.repec.org
ideas.repec.org

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So Claude is now as fast as the QJE for desk rejects?

RePEc in January 2026 This post is unusually late, in large part because we tried for a long time fixing the statistics for abstract views, whose quality has continued to deteriorate markedly due to AI robot traffic. It…

RePEc Blog:

RePEc in January 2026

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Interesting that the least religious-diverse are also likely to have civil wars.

FRED Blog

Why is chocolate so expensive?

fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2026/02/why-...

If an economists is deceased and not flagged as such in their RePEc profile, please alert us so that we can take care of their profile, Thanks!

ideas.repec.org/i/erip.html

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