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@petersuber@fediscience.org A shocker for those who run entirely on volunteer labor.
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@ZachWeinersmith Economics also has a very rich pre-print culture. In fact, one could argue that this is where the research action really is. Journals are just a historical record where the research frontier was a few years ago (we have a thing with long publication delays)
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@petersuber@fediscience.org But I do not understand why you would need that many people.
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Update: the number of active users from Singapore now exceeds its population.
FRED Blog:
How markets have responded to military action against Iran
Tracking crude oil prices and volatility with FRED
https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2026/04/how-markets-have-responded-to-military-action-against-iran/
To illustrate how much bots are pounding RePEc sites, Google Analytics, which is supposed to weed them out, thinks there have been 3.5M active users from Singapore (population 6M) in the last four weeks. And as many users from Iraq as from Canada.
In EDIRC, the directory of economics institutions, if you see someone listed as member of *your* institution that should not be, tell us! And if they have a "?", give us their new email address. Thanks!
The proposals on expanding the scope of self-citations and author classification were adopted by a wide margin. They will integrated in new code to be written over the next few months.
https://blog.repec.org/2026/03/22/polls-regarding-self-citations-and-field-determination-in-repec/
RePEc now indexes over 1.3 million working papers (pre-prints) in Economics and related sciences
FRED Blog:
Rising capital expenditures and declining cash holdings during the AI boom
FRED Blog:
How are benchmark borrowing costs measured?
A close look into the 10-year Treasury yield
https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2026/05/how-are-benchmark-borrowing-costs-measured/
FRED Blog:
Velocity of money: The invisible pulse of the economy
A US-India comparison
https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2026/05/velocity-of-money-the-invisible-pulse-of-the-economy/
CitEc, RePEc's 25 year old citation matching initiative, has now extracted over 100 million references.
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FRED Blog:
What’s happening with interest rates on bank accounts?
Survey data from large lenders
https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2026/04/whats-happening-with-interest-rates-on-bank-accounts/
FRED Blog:
Economic policy uncertainty and aggregate economic activity in India
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FRED Blog:
The peculiar recent behavior of unemployment
https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2026/05/the-peculiar-recent-behavior-of-unemployment/
NEP disseminates new economics working papers in over 100 subfields. It recently issued its 100'000th weekly field report
Economics profession: you can do it. A search for "covid" on IDEAS yields 95K results.
EDIRC is RePEc's directory of institutions related to economics. Each entry has coordinates and links to members, alumni and publications. And yes, this site is 30 years old.
With the addition of a RePEc archive in Bhutan, we now have contributors from 105 countries
FRED Blog:
Bankrate and Freddie Mac mortgage rate data
Using FRED to compare similar but not identical datasets
https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2026/05/bankrate-and-freddie-mac-mortgage-rate-data/
FRED Blog:
From net oil importer to net oil exporter
Shifts in the role of petroleum in the US economy
https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2026/04/from-net-oil-importer-to-net-oil-exporter/
As more and more of the IDEAS website is getting rewritten, please tell if something does not work right, or if you have suggestions.
A sixth article reached 10'000 citations on RePEc, and one now 15'000.