1st Edition

Meta-Regression Analysis in Economics and Business

By T.D. Stanley, Hristos Doucouliagos Copyright 2012
200 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

The purpose of this book is to introduce novice researchers to the tools of meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis and to summarize the state of the art for existing practitioners. Meta-regression analysis addresses the rising "Tower of Babel" that current economics and business research has become. Meta-analysis is the statistical analysis of previously published, or reported, research... Read more

1: Introduction  2: Identifying and Coding Meta-Analysis Data  3: Summarizing Meta-Analysis Data  4: Publication Bias and Its Discontents  5: Explaining Economics Research  6: Economic Theory and Meta-Regression Analysis  7: Further Topics in Meta-Regression Analysis  8: Summary and Conclusions

Biography

T.D. Stanley is Bill and Connie Bowen Odyssey Professor of Economics at Hendrix College, Conway, AR, USA.

Hristos Doucouliagos is Professor in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.