Negative / Null Result Report2013
The Oregon Experiment — Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes
New England Journal of Medicine
Failure-mode index
Negative results in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
196 indexed negative results, null findings, and replication failures in Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Each entry is a real published study whose primary finding was negative — learn what already failed before you repeat it.
Most-cited failures in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Microcredit in Theory and Practice: Using Randomized Credit Scoring for Impact Evaluation
Science
Negative / Null Result Report2013
The Cost of Carbon: Capital Market Effects of the Proposed Emission Trading Scheme (ETS)
Abacus
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Pushing on a string: US monetary policy is less powerful in recessions ∗
Negative / Null Result Report2014
The Evidence on Globalisation
World Economy
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Statistical tests for power-law cross-correlated processes
Physical Review E
Negative / Null Result Report2019
How renewable energy consumption lower global CO2 emissions? Evidence from countries with different income levels
World Economy
Negative / Null Result Report2012
What determines the profitability of banks? Evidence from Spain
Accounting and Finance
Negative / Null Result Report2015
Estimating the Impact of Microcredit on Those Who Take It Up: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Morocco
American Economic Journal Applied Economics
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Impact of SMS-Based Agricultural Information on Indian Farmers
The World Bank Economic Review
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Mutual Fund Performance and the Incentive to Generate Alpha
The Journal of Finance
Negative / Null Result Report2017
What does a Deductible Do? The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics*
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Negative / Null Result Report2020
The impact of climate vulnerability on firms’ cost of capital and access to finance
World Development
Negative / Null Result Report2018
Racial Bias in Bail Decisions*
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Recourse and Residential Mortgage Default: Evidence from US States
Review of Financial Studies
Negative / Null Result Report2012
The Effects of Fiscal Stimulus: Evidence from the 2009 Cash for Clunkers Program*
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Are Government Spending Multipliers Greater during Periods of Slack? Evidence from Twentieth-Century Historical Data
American Economic Review
Negative / Null Result Report2016
Early Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Health Insurance Coverage in Medicaid Expansion and Non‐Expansion States
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Negative / Null Result Report2015
Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco
American Economic Journal Applied Economics
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Let’s Twist Again: A High-Frequency Event-Study Analysis of Operation Twist and Its Implications for QE2
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Derivative Pricing with Liquidity Risk: Theory and Evidence from the Credit Default Swap Market
EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Negative / Null Result Report2020
Divergent ESG Ratings
The Journal of Portfolio Management
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Determinants of Export Diversification Around the World: 1962–2000
World Economy
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Do Hot Hands Exist among Hedge Fund Managers? An Empirical Evaluation
The Journal of Finance
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Why Do States Adopt Renewable Portfolio Standards?: An Empirical Investigation
The Energy Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Pricing Model Performance and the Two‐Pass Cross‐Sectional Regression Methodology
The Journal of Finance
Negative / Null Result Report2010
The Impact of Oil Price Shocks on the Economic Growth of Selected MENA1 Countries
The Energy Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2013
The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka
American Economic Journal Applied Economics
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Do Speculators Drive Crude Oil Futures Prices?
The Energy Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2010
From Innovation to Exporting or Vice Versa?
World Economy
Negative / Null Result Report2017
The effects of financialization on investment: evidence from firm-level data for the UK
Cambridge Journal of Economics
Negative / Null Result Report2020
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Crude Oil and Stock Markets in the US: A Time-Varying Analysis
Energy RESEARCH LETTERS
Negative / Null Result Report2017
New Evidence on the Aftermath of Financial Crises in Advanced Countries
American Economic Review
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Extending health insurance to the poor in India: An impact evaluation of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana on out of pocket spending for healthcare
Social Science & Medicine
Negative / Null Result Report2013
The TIPS‐Treasury Bond Puzzle
The Journal of Finance
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Bank Financing for SMEs: Evidence Across Countries and Bank Ownership Types
Journal of Financial Services Research
Negative / Null Result Report2016
Decision Making Under the Gambler’s Fallacy: Evidence from Asylum Judges, Loan Officers, and Baseball Umpires*
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Negative / Null Result Report2020
Evaluating State and Local Business Incentives
The Journal of Economic Perspectives
Negative / Null Result Report2016
Firms’ knowledge search and local knowledge externalities in innovation performance
Research Policy
Negative / Null Result Report2014
How Does Risk Selection Respond to Risk Adjustment? New Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program
American Economic Review
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Democracy, War, and Wealth: Lessons from Two Centuries of Inheritance Taxation
American Political Science Review
Negative / Null Result Report2019
International Shocks, Variable Markups, and Domestic Prices
The Review of Economic Studies
Negative / Null Result Report2016
Do Weather-Induced Moods Affect the Processing of Earnings News?
Journal of Accounting Research
Negative / Null Result Report2014
The Impact of Medicaid on Labor Market Activity and Program Participation: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
American Economic Review
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Migration and Wage Effects of Taxing Top Earners: Evidence from the Foreigners’ Tax Scheme in Denmark*
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Temporal Stability of Time Preferences
The Review of Economics and Statistics
Negative / Null Result Report2015
EFFECTS OF INDEX‐FUND INVESTING ON COMMODITY FUTURES PRICES
International Economic Review
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Rent-sharing, Holdup, and Wages: Evidence from Matched Panel Data
The Review of Economic Studies
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Efficient market hypothesis in European stock markets
European Journal of Finance
Negative / Null Result Report2018
Portfolio Manager Compensation in the U.S. Mutual Fund Industry
The Journal of Finance