Economist on "I think HRMs are MUCH less ethical than LRMs"
Publishing game + greed + ambition + access to confidential data => high probability of unethical researchWe need to check their work more regularly
View ArticleEconomist on "Amazon mTurk - publication quality?"
How are studies that use mTurk as a subject pool perceived by economic journal? I hardly know of any well published study. Does anyone have some references where mTurk studies have been published Top 5?
View ArticleEconomist on "How do you write a paper?"
I am sure all of you have different approaches, and it depends on the field, but here is me- Have an idea - Collect references - start writing fluff/intro - think about the model mechanics or do data...
View ArticleEconomist on "Dear first year grad student referee"
Remind your lazy ass unethical advisor to at least read your sh~tty report before he submits it under his name.
View ArticleEconomist on "Kindle or IPad app for journals?"
Is there an app where you can log in to JSTOR and read latest journals for IPAD or Kindle? Obviously you can download the PDFs, but I think it would be to nice to be able to just browse the latest...
View ArticleEconomist on "Publications in e-mail signature"
I've seen people do it, but they are usually from other disciplines. Goes something like this:John D. Smith, Ph.D. Professor Author of "From the Automat to McDonald's: Prole Indicators of the 20th...
View ArticleEconomist on "Counting Top-5's"
Is there an easy way to count/rank economists by number of top-5 publications? Would also be curious to see the plot of top-5 publications by years from Ph.D.Is there a filter in RePeC or Google...
View ArticleEconomist on "Is this a joke?"
http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/working_papers/papers/qed_wp_1083.pdfHow did this paper get published in JMCB?...
View ArticleEconomist on "How to convert sas output into excel ?"
Currently I do it manually and it takes a lot of time.
View ArticleEconomist on "I waste so much time with over-ambitious coauthors"
that want to send papers to every top 5!!!!It is obviously wishful thinking, these people think maybe they will win the lottery. I get it, I would love a top 5 too. But these are top field papers at...
View ArticleEconomist on "Code Sharing Policy at JF"
Can anyone explain it to me? It requires posting "pseudo-data" but not actual data... WHAT IS THIS?http://www.afajof.org/SpringboardWebApp/userfiles/afa/file/Submissions/CodePolicy.pdf
View ArticleEconomist on "When did they start to talk about 'top 5'?"
In finance I believe that they started to say 'top 3' around at best early or mid 1990 since the first issue of RFS is at 1988. It seems top 5 in economics has a longer history but perhaps does not go...
View ArticleEconomist on "Industrial and Corporate Change"
How would you say, for a LRM a publication, in this journal would look? Is it tough to publish there?
View ArticleEconomist on "Should acknowledgments be included in initial submissions"
We are wondering whether or not we should include acknowledgments (including conference presentations as well as other researchers) when we first submit a paper to a journal? What are your experiences?...
View ArticleEconomist on "How to write a book chapter?"
I need to write a book chapter as a requirement for associate professorship. I don't know how to proceed.(As far as I know these are mostly by invitatiton)
View ArticleEconomist on "How good is Theoretical Economics?"
Where does it rank among theory econ/fenance journals? Particularly, for short papers (< 15 pages), what is a good list of order of places to try for theory econ/fenance?
View ArticleEconomist on "Jeff Smith's refereeing style"
A colleague told me that Jeff Smith has a very distinct style of formatting his referee reports, because he wants people to know that it is him who wrote that.Anybody knows what this style is?
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