Methodological Artefacts, Data Manipulation and Fraud in Economics and Social Science

Dr. Andreas Diekmann ist Professor für Soziologie an der Universität Bern, Schweiz.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Adolf Wagner, habilitiert für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Statistik an der Universität Tübingen, hatte Ordinariate an den Universitäten Marburg, Tübingen und Leipzig für Wirtschaftstheorie, Statistik bzw. Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung inne. Er leitete an den drei Standorten namhafte kleine Institute der Wirtschafts- und Sozialforschung.

Guest Editorial
Abhandlungen / Original Papers
Opp, Karl-Dieter, The Production of Historical "Facts": How the Wrong Number of Participants in the Leipzig Monday Demonstration on October 9, 1989 Became a Convention
Krämer, Walter, Gerhard Arminger, “True Believers” or Numerical Terrorism at the Nuclear Power Plant
Greiser, Eberhard, One-eyed Epidemiologic Dummies at Nuclear Power Plants. A Reply to Walter Krämer and Gerhard Arminger’s Paper ‘“True believers” or Numerical Terrorism at the Nuclear Power Plant’
Diekmann, Andreas, Are Most Published Research Findings False?
Auspurg, Katrin, Thomas Hinz, What Fuels Publication Bias? Theoretical and Empirical Analyses of Risk Factors Using the Caliper Test
Weiß, Bernd, Michael Wagner, The Identification and Prevention of Publication Bias in the Social Sciences and Economics
Schräpler, Jörg-Peter, Benford's Law as an Instrument for Fraud Detection in Surveys Using the Data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
Shikano, Susumu, Verena Mack, When Does the Second-Digit Benford's Law-Test Signal an Election Fraud? Facts or Misleading Test Results
Bauer, Johannes, Jochen Gross, Difficulties Detecting Fraud? The Use of Benford’s Law on Regression Tables
Coutts†, Elisabeth, Ben Jann, Ivar Krumpal, Anatol-Fiete Näher, Plagiarism in Student Papers: Prevalence Estimates Using Special Techniques for Sensitive Questions
Franzen, Axel, Dominikus Vogl, Pitfalls of International Comparative Research: Taking Acquiescence into Account
Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews
Aoyama, H., Y. Fujiwara, Y. Ikeda, H. Iyetomi, W. Souma, Econophysics and Companies. Statistical Life and Death in Complex Business Networks
Postler, Andreas, Nachhaltige Finanzierung der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung
Ramser, Hans J., Manfred Stadler (Hrsg.), Marktmacht

Bandinhalt des 231. Jahrgangs der Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
Contents of Volume 231 of the Journal of Economics and Statistics