Now you see it, now you don't: Emerging contrary results in economics

Journal of Economic Methodology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 221-244

  Goldfarb, Robert S ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflicting results; Economic methodology; Empirical disputes; Empirical reversals; Empirical testing; Publication bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012829077     PISSN: 1350178X     EISSN: 14699427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501789700000016     Document Type: Article

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