Economist on "General interest journals are not actually general interest...
They mostly publish applied micro work. ECTA is very friendly to theory, but besides that most papers are applied micro (and empirical in general). Macro is a big field, but how many macro papers do...
View ArticleEconomist on "What to do when a good coauthor screws up"
Let's start by saying he is one of my best coauthors and I would love to continue working with him. This time, however, he screwed up big.We have been shopping around this paper and we were ready to...
View ArticleEconomist on "Why does everyone hate on Acemoglu's institution paper?"
I've seen it repeatedly trashed on EJMR, but few people seem to articulate specific criticisms.
View ArticleEconomist on "How's your JMP doing?"
AER (desk reject) QJE (ref reject) REStat (ref reject) AEJ:Pol (ref reject)-2015 candidate
View ArticleEconomist on "Fixed effect Quantile regression for Panel data in STATA"
STATA commands anyone ?
View ArticleEconomist on "What if I send again my rejected paper to QJE?"
new title, same content, one year later
View ArticleEconomist on "Tenure with 2 JFQAs"
Does this happen?Or do top 100/150 usually require at least one top 3?
View ArticleEconomist on "Should I refrain from publishing a reply to the research of...
I see her everyday, and I'd rather have good relations with her.
View ArticleEconomist on "Examples of Econ Bros Who Went Industry and Wrote Great Papers?"
Any examples of econ bros who went into industry, saw how things were done, got some insight, and wrote great academic papers?
View ArticleEconomist on "Economic Journal (EJ) or Journal of the European Economic...
Which is ranked higher? What is better for an education paper?
View ArticleEconomist on "What's the rule of thumb for when to use probit and when to use...
Or can I choose based on which one gets me better results?
View ArticleEconomist on "Top 3 Finance journals versus Econ journals"
There seems to be lots of discussions about publication at Finance top journals and top Econ journals. Lots of econ bros are unbelievably ignorant and arrogant at trashing finance journals. Motivated...
View ArticleEconomist on "Little known RePEc features"
From today's EJMR threats, I learned about three interesting RePEc features I had never heard of before:http://collec.repec.org/ Co-author analysishttp://plagiarism.repec.org/ Plagiarism...
View ArticleEconomist on "Journal of economic surveys (JES)"
where can i submit my survey if rejected by JES? Preferably some place lower
View ArticleEconomist on "Problem in revision for top journal"
I have a paper submitted to a top journal. Among the other things, I was asked to do a robustness that does not work well (results are similar but less precise). I think I have a good argument why it...
View ArticleEconomist on "World Development vs Journal of Population Economics"
Which one is better?
View ArticleEconomist on "I don't even try the top journal in my field"
Goodbye JME. Two terrible experiences are enough for me, at least until I secure tenure. BTW, look at this paper:Received date: 2 May 2011 Revised date: 26 January 2016 Accepted date: 15 March 2016An...
View ArticleEconomist on "Is this really a credible instrument?"
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin_Tsui/publication/227764172_More_Oil_Less_Democracy_Evidence_from_Worldwide_Crude_Oil_Discoveries*/links/00463535e9f5a57908000000.pdf
View ArticleEconomist on "Any software/online service to detect plagiarism in your paper?"
I'm about to submit a paper and I would like to see whether some parts of my literature review are sufficiently different from the papers I used to write the first sections so that I can modify them. I...
View ArticleEconomist on "How large of a sample size do Acemoglu's critics want for the...
I bet the answer is greater than the number of countries that exist.
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