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Got Replicability? The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Archive

by B. D. McCullough

*B. D. McCullough* received a B.A. in economics from Georgetown University in 1981 and a Ph.D in economics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. After five years as an assistant professor of economics at Fordham University, he joined the Federal

Abstract

In a paper published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, McGeary, Harrison, and I showed that the JMCB’s data+code archive of generally did not support the replication of the journal’s published results. We recommended several procedures for ensuring that the archived data and code would reproduce the published results. The JMCB Editors recently adopted a few new procedures, ignoring most of the recommendations. This paper checks to see whether the new procedures are working. They are not.

in Economics in Practice

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Volume (Issue)
4(3)
Pages
326-337
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JEL classification
B4, C8
Keywords
code, data, replication, reproducible research

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