国外经济学杂志排名.pdf

Rankings of Academic Journals and Institutions in Economics∗ Pantelis Kalaitzidakis University of Crete and University of Cyprus Theofanis P. Mamuneas University of Leicester and University of Cyprus Thanasis Stengos University of Guelph October 2001 ∗We like to thank D. Laband who provided us with his index of characters per page and Elena Ketteni for excellent research assistance. Financial support from European Economic Association is gratefully acknowledged. 1 Introduction There has been a lot of recent research literature on rankings of economics departments throughout the world. They serve as signals tools for attracting new faculty and retaining older in highly ranked institutions and also help at- tract the best graduate students who have academic aspirations. Many times these rankings are used by university administrators to allocate scarce educa- tion funds to different departments according to their success in these rankings. There has been a long standing tradition for US economic departments to be ranked (see Scott and Mitias (1996) and Dusansky and Vernon (1998) for recent such rankings). Recent European studies of this kind include Kirman and Dahl (1994) and Kalaitzidakis, Mamuneas and Stengos (1999). There have been also rankings of departments in Asia (see Jin and Yau (1999)), Canada (see Lucas (1995)), as well as Australia (see Harris (1990)). Rankings are also constructed in other related disciplines such as finance for the same reasons outlined above, (see Chung and Cox, (1990)). Coupé (2000) provides a comprehensive ranking of economic departments world-wide. His ranking methodology is based on empl