Economist on "How much do you get paid per paper?"
In China our researchers get paid.500,000 yuan for a paper published in a good journal ($74,000 for a single paper)US researchers = poor in...
View ArticleEconomist on "Journal "Economic Policy""
How good is this journal (http://www.economic-policy.org/)? They publish stuff that is policy relevant and accessible to a wide audience. The impact factor is high and the editorial board good, but it...
View ArticleEconomist on "The leading example of a JET piece is wrong"
Rookie here. Just caught a fatal error in an illustrative example of a theory piece in JET. Some of their basic assumptions are violated in the example. It can be easily fixed though (took me a couple...
View ArticleEconomist on "How is Geert Bekaert as an editor?"
How is Geert Bekaert as an editor? Please don't bring up his lawsuit here.
View ArticleEconomist on "Asking for an deadline extension for resubmission?"
The editor set a deadline for resubmission, but it looks increasingly not possible. Of course, I could just resubmit whatever I have by the deadline, but if more time were given (say 1 more month), I...
View ArticleEconomist on "Submitting an improved version to a journal that has rejected...
I sent an applied theory paper to a journal. The paper was rejected but all referees and the editor agree that the question and the results are interesting. The paper was rejected because the model had...
View ArticleEconomist on "Terrible referee"
He gave 4 rejections on the same paper... :( AER, RED, IER, and RFS...
View ArticleEconomist on "Can't get published - been told my field is "clubby""
How do I join the "club"? What kind of hazing is involved? Thanks
View ArticleEconomist on "How to respond a referee comment"
Referee asks why I don't do X instead of Y. The problem is that if I try X it would take me ages to finish the revision. How do you argue this point politely? Is it ok to explain in detail why it is...
View ArticleEconomist on "50% of QJE papers come from MIT and Harvard PhDs"
and only from people who working at 7 universities (Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Chicago, Princeton, Stanford and Columbia) http://ftp.iza.org/dp9414.pdfYale LRM, confirmed
View ArticleEconomist on "Ran an experiment that cost thousands of $$$, p-values are...
I ran an experiment and as the title says my p-values are junk. Just a few significant ones with the rest not significant if I stay honest and don't p-hack. Where do I go from here?
View ArticleEconomist on "IER to JME!!!"
I did it. Incredible experience!!! Frankly, I should admit that it was a referee luck... but anyway, I am so happy at this moment!!! :)
View ArticleEconomist on "Is JBF respected in Australia?"
I am revising a paper with JBF. I am tenured at LRM/VLRM, so this pub would not matter much to me. But I guess it matters to my coauthor who wish to get a job in Australia. Just wondering how well...
View ArticleEconomist on "Journal of Law and Economics - 2017 Issues?"
It looks like the last issue of The Journal of Law and Economics is from November 2016. See http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/loi/jle .Does anyone know where the 2017 issues are?
View ArticleEconomist on "No motivation"
Mostly, I like to watch silly videos on YouTube. Some days that's all I do. I have a couple of papers under revision, but most days I don't find the motivation to open Stata even... maybe I should quit?
View ArticleEconomist on "Accidentally recommended rejection as referee"
It was a typo in my report -- I really meant accept. I don't want to email the editor about my mistake because I'll look like an idiot.Sorry :(
View ArticleEconomist on "Thanking referees who rejected the paper in acknowledgements?"
I am in the process of submitting my JMP. So far I've gotten two desk rejects and one referee rejection, and two of these three came with very helpful feedback that I've used to improve my paper.Should...
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