VW Foundation supports ZBW pilot project on reproducibility in economic research
The ZBW has successfully secured third-party funding for the project ‘Piloting an Open and Reusable Service of Reproducibility Checks’. The Volkswagen Foundation is funding the project, which is led by Marianne Saam. It will start in May 2025 in collaboration with Phillipp Breidenbach, head of the Research Data Centre Ruhr at RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. The team will be advised by Lars Vilhuber, the first data editor of the American Economic Association (AEA), and by editors of several academic journals. The aim of the three-year project is to develop a pilot service for reproducibility checks of research work.
The service is tested using data sets and program codes published in the ZBW's Journal Data Archive (JDA). The new JDA Replication Lab is designed to enable economics journals to efficiently conduct reproducibility checks without having to bear the full development and operating costs themselves. Like the AEA's Data Editor, the JDA Replication Lab works with student assistants who gain valuable training through their involvement.
With this project, the ZBW is strengthening its commitment to open science and scientific transparency in economic research.
Project participants
Prof. Dr. Marianne Saam
Dr. Timo Borst
Chuan Liu
Sven Vlaeminck
Dr. Philipp Breidenbach, RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
Philip Raatz, RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
Cooperation partner:
Prof. W. Robert Reed (University of Canterbury, Christchurch)
Dr. Lars Vilhuber (Cornell University, Ithaca, und American Economic Association)
Prof. Dr. Peter Winker (Justus Liebig University Giessen)
Duration
36 Months
