Working Papers:

• "What 5,000 Acknowledgements Tell Us About Informal Collaboration in Financial Economics"

  Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Discussion Paper No. 11, Sep 2018

  with Co-Pierre Georg (UCT & Deutsche Bundesbank)

• "Informal Contacts in Hiring: The Economics Job Market"

  Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 18-12, July 2018

  with Suraj Shekhar (UCT)

• "Informal Intellectual Collaboration with Central Colleagues"

  Kiel Working Paper 2084, June 2017

  SSRN: 2877586, Dec 2016

  with Co-Pierre Georg (UCT & Deutsche Bundesbank) and Daniel C. Opolot (UCT)




Work in Progress:

• "scopus: Scriptable bibliometrics using a Python interface to Scopus"

  with John R. Kitchin (CMU, Dep. of Chem. Engineering)

• "sosia: Automatic author matching in Scopus on-line"

  with Stefano H. Baruffaldi (Bath)

• "(Dis-)Agreement among Central Banks"
• "Geography and Diversity in the Formation of Academic Collaborations Networks"

  with Krishna Dasaratha (Harvard), Co-Pierre Georg (UCT & Deutsche Bundesbank) and Nir Hak (Harvard)

• "The Rate of Scientific Progress and the Structure of the Scientific Community"

  with Daniel C. Opolot (UCT)

Software

scopus

John Kitchen and I develop scopus, being a Python module for easy, large-scale interaction with Elsevier's Scopus bibliometric database.

scopus on rtfd.org

GitHub repo

sosia

Stefano Baruffaldi and I develop sosia, a Python module to match researchers online in the Scopus database (useful for Diff-in-Diff analysis).

sosia on rtfd.org

GitHub repo

www.Central-Places.net

Co-Pierre Georg and I have developed a website to accompany our projects on informal collaboration in financial economics.  You will find a ranking of financial economists based on their centrality in the network of informal collaboration and interesting facts in the blog.

www.Central-Places.net

scholarmetrics

I develop scholarmetrics, a python package for fast computation of citation metrics.

scholarmetrics on rtfd.org

GitHub repo

networkx

I help developing networkx, being THE python package for network analyses.

networkx on rtfd.org

GitHub repo

Data Sharing

I believe in data sharing. Here is my contribution:

• CoFE - Collaboration in Financial Economics. Informal Collaboration among 14k researchers revealed through acknowledgements
• Faculty Memberships in Econ, Finance, Mgmt and Account 2000-2004 following after James Hasselback's Faculty Rosters
• Compiled data of the Tilburg University Top Worldwide Economics Schools Research Rankings
• Scimago Impact Factors for Economis and Econometrics Journal since 1999

Learning from the Masters

Being an empirical researcher, I'd like to recommend a number of "manuals" that helped me set foot in the academic world:

• "Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner's Guide", by J. Shapiro and M. Gentzkow
• "Writing Tips for Ph. D. Students", by J. Cochrane
• "Some Research and Writing Tips", Part 1 (Research) and Part 2 (Writing), by B. Jacobsen
• "Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist", by A. Downey