Economist on "We cannot reject simple randomness as the cause."
I've always hated this phrasing. Why do people use it?
View ArticleEconomist on "Ifbas barcelona 2016"
How good is this conference? Does acceptance or otherwise of a paper in this conference means anything about the quality of the paper?
View ArticleEconomist on "Good Sign or a Formality?"
I submitted a paper around 10 weeks ago. I recently heard back that it passed the editor's first glance and has so far been reviewed by one reviewer. Seemingly they are having difficulty finding a...
View ArticleEconomist 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 "Alphabetical author name ordering -- hard and fast rule or just...
I'm working on a paper with a coauthor. The coauthor's contribution is indisputable. Equally indisputable is that my contribution is bigger. Is it basically verboten in econ to put my name first, even...
View ArticleEconomist on "Respect rankings are total crap"
People who write stata code are ranked higher than superstars (I'm guessing to reward the coders who wrote repec).Schools with nothing but two dozen LRM are ranked higher than those with a dozen...
View ArticleEconomist on "How come very little of JPE's articles are actually about...
Did they just decide they should be a general interest journal since they are a top five?
View ArticleEconomist on "Which of the top 5 journals publishes the most reg monkey work?"
I am a reg monkey that wants to be efficient in how I use my time, so I want to pick two or three of the top 5 to follow. Unfortunately, I cannot understand theoretical or structural work. Any advice...
View ArticleEconomist on "Women are happier when they earn less money than their husband."
http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/130/2/571.fullWe examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We show that the distribution of the share of income earned by the wife...
View ArticleEconomist on "Do you "manage" your projects?"
I just realized that "project management" is an actual thing. Is this something we should be doing for all of our research? In my mind, there never seemed a way to plan or predict anything because you...
View ArticleEconomist on "Macroeconomic Dynamics Desk Reject?"
Hello everyone! Do they desk reject? If yes, how many weeks it takes?
View ArticleEconomist on "The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics"
why is there a critical take on The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics? The editorial board is very good and for a change rather young. I would rate it about the level of MD at the least.
View ArticleEconomist on "Ever told someone you were reviewing their paper?"
And if so, what were the circumstances?
View ArticleEconomist on "JFQA turnaround time"
Any feedback about your experience with JFQA in terms of the time it took to hear back for the first round?Much appreciated.
View ArticleEconomist on "Can you believe it's only 252 days till Christmas?!?!"
That's just 36 weeks!!!What are you guys asking Santa? I'm asking that this year, finally, I get a response from the JME
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