Economist on "Things that motivate you to do research"
Motivation fluctuates in all of us. To self-motivate is one of the basic skills a researcher must possess. Let's share together what we do to motivate ourselves to work on our to-dos, research, find...
View ArticleEconomist on "When to change affiliation for papers?"
Leaving old job over summer and will start new in fall, contract signed.When do I change affiliation for submissions and publications?
View ArticleEconomist on "Question about JOLE submission"
I sent a paper to JOLE last September. In December I noticed that my paper status changed in the website from "Under Review" to "Required Reviews Completed", but I haven't heard anything from editor....
View ArticleEconomist on "What is CJE rejection rate?"
The wiki makes it look like acceptance is very low. Any other info?
View ArticleEconomist on "Is there an index that measures the general exchange value of a...
So instead of looking at the exchange rate with another specific currency, it would just look at for example the general strength or weakness of the US dollar compared to a basket of currencies.
View ArticleEconomist on "What's the best way to hack your t stat above 1.96?"
I am so close on some of them. Should I just add random controls until I get something?
View ArticleEconomist on "Stop parsimonious specifications!"
I demand that you show the baseline specification only.
View ArticleEconomist on "How come null results from IVs are never published?"
People seem to believe that a null result somehow means it was a bad instrument.
View ArticleEconomist on "Referee did not read my paper and grossly mischaracterized it...
What's the point of an editor soliciting feedback from somebody like that? It's negligence and dereliction of duty. Why must I be evaluated by inferior minds and dishonest lazy schlubs like that?
View ArticleEconomist on "To RA or not to RA this summer. That is the question."
I'm a second year grad student thinking about how to optimally spend my summer. Is it a bad idea not to RA and just work on my own fledging projects?Any advice/perspectives would be appreciated.
View ArticleEconomist on "Should the AER refuse to publish atheoretical reduced form work?"
We theorists deserve a little extra consideration at the AER.
View ArticleEconomist on "Internalizing international spillover/back effects"
Any academic paper dealing with this issue???In his LSE speech, Jaime Caruana emphasized this topic... but really don't we have any research articles/guidelines for these policy...
View ArticleEconomist on "Read Mostly Working Papers"
First year finance PhD here with a question about staying up to date on the literature.My question for you veterans is-- Do you still look through the newest issues of the big journals or are those...
View ArticleEconomist on "Paul Krugman here.."
Please stop downvoting my blog posts. It reflects poorly on our profession.
View ArticleEconomist on "EconKBase - Economics Insights Database"
A new aggregating service of economics blogs, reports, articles called EconKBase - Economics Insights Database. It categorizes them by regions, topics and sectors offering portals by those categories.
View ArticleEconomist on "I can't get my papers through the journal reviewing gauntlet"
I feel like giving up entirely. It's too much effort just to have such a low chance of getting lucky with decent referees.
View ArticleEconomist on "Brookings"
Hello,Is a paper in brookings counted for tenureat top 50?How much does it matter? Is it like AER or more like EER?
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