Six Decades of Economic Research at the Bank of England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4298399 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan Acosta (0000-0002-4702-0477, Universidad del Valle), Béatrice Cherrier (0000-0001-6117-3149, CNRS; CREST, ENSAE 1 Polytechnique, IP Paris [email protected]), François Claveau (0000-0001-7129-7794, Université de Sherbrooke, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie), Clément Fontan (0000-0001-6283-8931, UCLouvain, ISPOLE; USL-B, IEE), Aurélien Goutsmedt (0000-0002-3788-7237, UCLouvain, ISPOLE), Francesco Sergi (0000-0003-2231-5559, Université Paris Est Créteil, LIPHA) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-40 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2702 • E-ISSN: 1527-1919 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182702-10956544 |
| OpenAlex | W4317787971 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 43 |
This paper discusses the transformation of the content, role, and status of economic research at the Bank of England in the past sixty years. We show how three factors (the policy functions and missions of the Bank, the attitude of its executives toward economics, and its organizational structure) shaped the evolution of in-house economic research at the Bank during three distinctive periods (1960-91; 1992-2007; 2007-14). Our account relies on a broad set of sources and methods (the Bank's publications, archives, interviews with current and former Bank economists, citation analysis, prosopography, and topic modeling
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |