I am going to try to post at the end of each day on the progress I have made toward completing my projects. Today, I had lunch with four of my colleagues (Marianne Saam, Katrin Schleife, Bettina Müller, and Andrea Mühlenweg), I met with the president of ZEW, Wolfgang Franz, for 15 minutes, met briefly with Martin Peitz and discussed my current project with Jörg Ohnemus. Nice networking if I do say so myself.
As far as my current project goes, I am trying to see the impact of an online electronic database of past journal articles on future journal article production. I have data on all articles published in the last 30 years and when different institutions obtained access to JSTOR. There is a knotty problem is parsing the journal data into actual institution affiliation. The problem emerges because sometimes "Univ Texas" refers to Austin and sometimes to its satellite campuses. This occurs in other states too. Since I expect a bigger impact in non-flagship schools, I want to make sure I identify them correctly. A way to solve this is to use the zip code of the author to place him on a campus. Well, I hit upon a new algorithm to do this and it looks like it will be able to extract the zip code for 99.9% of US affiliations. On a five point scale of work productivity, today was a three.
About Me
- Michael Ward
- Short Bio - Michael R. Ward earned his bachelors degree is in Economics and Mathematics from UCLA and he earned his masters and doctorate degrees in Economics from the University of Chicago. He has held economics positions in the academic, government and private sectors. He is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Arlington. He previously held Assistant and Associate Professor positions at the University of Illinois and has served as a staff economist at the Federal Trade Commission. Prof. Ward’s research interests are in competition and productivity in research intensive industries, especially telecommunications, E-commerce and pharmaceuticals. Of particular interest are: market regulation and policy and institutions to facilitate information transfer. His research has been published in a number of economics journals, edited volumes, and government reports. He has made research presentations at numerous government agencies and scholarly conferences. He has taught a variety of microeconomic topics at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels.
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Whoo, sounds more like a 4+ out of 5 day to me. Enjoying your posts, great pics/nice chat.
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