Economist on "Always recommend rejection, that's my policy"
Face it. There are a limited number of spots in the top journals. We are all competing for those spots. If their paper gets in, then that's one less spot for yours. There is always a reason to reject....
View ArticleEconomist on "Questions on Kenneth R. French Data Library"
Is this research quality data? How exactly are the monthly returns constructed (close of the last day of the month - close of the last day of past month)? Are these log returns or exact (can I compute...
View ArticleEconomist on "Science / Nature / PNAS"
Seems like a huge divide between Americans and Europeans on whether to submit here. My Euro department counts these 3, top-5 econ, top-3 finance as top journals. I don't think any american dept does...
View ArticleEconomist on "Citing up or down"
Another thread mentioned this, but its popped up a few times in comments I've received and am interested to hear others' thoughts. Have many people published articles in top 5s that don't mostly cite...
View ArticleEconomist on "Esther Duflo: New AER main editor"
"AEA Editor Transitions. The AEA Executive Committee is pleased to announce three new editor appointments: Esther Duflo for the American Economic Review, Alexandre Mas for the American Economic...
View ArticleEconomist on "Economics departments to do bayesian metrics"
What are the most active departments in this research area?
View ArticleEconomist on "How Common is "reject and resubmit"?"
I got recently "reject and resubmit" from top journal. Is this common?
View ArticleEconomist on "Corrupt Editors/Co-editors/Associate Editors"
Let's have a list of corrupt editors, co-editors, and associate editors who have handled the papers of their coauthors, advisees, or colleagues. If these people are commonly known in the profession,...
View ArticleEconomist on ""Reject and Resubmit" and "Reject""
Is there a "Reject and Resubmit"? What would be the difference between "Reject and Resubmit" and "Reject"?Correct me if I am wrong: if "Reject", editor will mentioned explicitly in the email that do...
View ArticleEconomist on "Journals that require submission in MS Word"
Are truly toilet journals. They don't even know the very basics of publishing.
View ArticleEconomist on "How many hours of effort to publish a paper?"
Assume you already have data and go three rounds at a top field journal where you are not the editors student.. Include 3-4 seminar/conference presentations. 1 or 2 coauthors.I have my own estimate but...
View ArticleEconomist on "How to cite to concurrent (own) working papers?"
I am working on two papers, where the second is sort of building on what I did in the first. However, it looks like the second one will be the first to be published (already in R&R, while the first...
View ArticleEconomist on "Just gave my favorite undergrad a referee report to work on"
I'm too swamped right now (with personal stuff) to do my referee reports. And so I typically pass them on to my undergrad students.Just giving you guys a heads up here, as a service to the profession....
View ArticleEconomist on "A referee wrote this in my new rejection"
Decent macro journal."The notion of a price-taking representative agent is oxymoronic. Utility maximization requires that the representative household restrict its consumption in order to achieve a...
View ArticleEconomist on "Fixed effect Quantile regression for Panel data in STATA"
STATA commands anyone ?
View ArticleEconomist on "Economics Bulletin Status"
Is there any way to determine your Economics Bulletin status other than emailing the editor?
View ArticleEconomist on "Job market in first year as AP"
Bro's I am distressed. I recently took my dream job as an AP. However, the place is sh*t -- they raised my expectations but now that I have joined are reneging on all that they agreed on. I have lost...
View ArticleEconomist on "Esther Duflo: New AER main editor"
"AEA Editor Transitions. The AEA Executive Committee is pleased to announce three new editor appointments: Esther Duflo for the American Economic Review, Alexandre Mas for the American Economic...
View ArticleEconomist on "Do you get pissed off with the editor and AEs if your paper...
Do you feel like you wanna somehow take revenge if your paper gets rejected?I mean would be happy to receive a paper to referee from the editors or the AEs of the journals that rejected you, so that...
View ArticleEconomist on "Stuck without a manuscript number??"
First time this has happened to me. (about 7 years on the job) Almost a week and a submission to an Elsevier journal hasn't even been assigned a manuscript number. What's up with this?
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