Econometric fellows and Nobel Laureates in economics


Autoria(s): Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno
Data(s)

11/12/2012

Resumo

An academic award is method by which peers offer recognition of intellectual efforts. In this paper we take a purely descriptive look at the relationship between becoming a Fellow of the Econometric Society and receiving the Nobel Prize in economics. We discover some interesting aspects: of all 69 Nobel Prize Laureates between 1969 and 2011, only 9 of them were not also Fellows. Moreover, the proportion of future novel winners among the Fellows has been quite high throughout time and a large share of researchers who became Fellows between the 1930s and 1950s became Nobel Laureates at a later stage. On average, researchers became Fellows relatively early in their career (14.9 years after their PhD) and those who were subsequently made Nobel Laureates became Fellows earlier than other researchers. Interestingly, Harvard and MIT have been the dominant PhD granting institutions to generate Fellows and Nobel Laureates in the past.

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/56416/

Publicador

Economics Bulletin

Relação

http://www.accessecon.com/includes/CountdownloadPDF.aspx?PaperID=EB-12-00804

Chan, Ho Fai & Torgler, Benno (2012) Econometric fellows and Nobel Laureates in economics. Economics Bulletin, 32(4), pp. 3365-3377.

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Copyright 2012 The author.

Open access -author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing) -author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) -author can archive publisher's version/PDF

Fonte

QUT Business School; School of Economics & Finance

Tipo

Journal Article