Working Papers:

• "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)

• "Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Who is the Most Central of Them All?"

  ERSA Working Paper 571, Jan 2015

  SSRN: 2709107, Dec 2015

  with Co-Pierre Georg (UCT & Deutsche Bundesbank)




Work in Progress:

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

  with Suraj Shekhar (UCT)

• "(How) Does Academic Research Influence Financial Policy?"
• "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

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

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

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:

• Compiled data of the Tilburg University Top Worldwide Economics Schools Research Rankings

• "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