Data and Code for: Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past

The contents of this repository contain all of the data and code necessary to replicate all of the tables and figures found in: <br><br>Glandon, PJ, Ken Kuttner, Caleb Stroup, and Sandeep Mazumder. Forthcoming. "Macroeconomic Research, Present, and Past" Journal of Economic Literature.<br><br>How is macroeconomic research conducted and what is it trying to accomplish? We explore these questions using information gleaned from 1,894 articles published in ten leading journals. The emphasis on quantitative, computation-intensive theory-based analysis has grown over the past 40 years, while the use of econometric methods to test economic hypotheses has diminished. Applied micro techniques and microdata have displaced time series methods. Market imperfections are pervasive and financial frictions have received increasing attention in the past ten years. The frequency with which non-macro JEL codes appear in macro articles indicates a great deal of overlap between macroeconomics and other fields.<br>