Economist on "Senior coauthor advice"
How long after sending an email to a senior coauthor should I wait before following up? -Assoc Prof with essentially no experience coauthoring with bigwigs
View ArticleEconomist on "Worst fights about ordering of authors"
in science this can be a huge issue, people have stopped talking for a lifetime after being unable to agree on author ordering. In economics is less of an issue but still several stories out there....
View ArticleEconomist on "IMPORTANT: The AEA is sending out a survey email about its...
TLDR: AEA is considering a letters journal and to revise it's "lol let's have a replication policy but nobody needs to follow it because all of the data is confidential!" policy.Some of the important...
View ArticleEconomist on "EJ vs. Restat"
I know they are about the same, but can we still rank them marginally?
View ArticleEconomist on "DSGE with balanced growth path"
Question: should one detrend variables before finding FOCs or after? The results are quite different...
View ArticleEconomist on "JMCB"
What is ranking of Journal of Money, Credit and Banking - as a macro field journal? How about it's average first turnaround time? Submission fee seems a bit high. But if the fee shortens the turnaround...
View ArticleEconomist on "How to deal with reviewers that don't read your paper?"
I keep trying to publish my JMP, and keep getting rejected. If the comments were good, this would be fair. But it is clear that many of the objections that the reviewers have stem from not having read...
View ArticleEconomist on "Journal of Economic Inequality"
How do you think this much newer journal is going to fare compared to the Review of Income and Wealth?
View ArticleEconomist on "Special issues to reward editors' co-authors"
Check out this issue of the Journal of Public Economic Theory:2015, Volume 17, Issue 1 1-3 Introduction to the Special Issue on Public-Private Partnerships by David Martimort & Flavio Menezes &...
View ArticleEconomist on "How old is too old to come up with a brilliant research idea?"
Not including HRMs. You guys are already brilliant. Serious. I'm talking about LRMs trying to play catch up. How old is too old?
View ArticleEconomist on "Location of tables and graphs"
Do you locate them at the end of the draft or in the middle of texts?Which do you prefer as a reader and a writer?
View ArticleEconomist on "Theoretical Economics Letters???"
Just saw this today when I did a journal search. Seems a little sketchy to me ($500 submission fee for first 10 pages), open source and they claim its peer reviewed. Does anyone had experience with...
View ArticleEconomist on "Pub ethics question"
I have an interesting theoretical model and I'm working on an empirical section to test it. The testing is preliminary right now but it doesn't seem to support the theory. Together it seems ridiculous...
View ArticleEconomist on "Inefficeint optimization"
How would you model a situation where a firm or consumer is optimizing an objective function over some continuous variable, but the firms/consumers are heterogeneous in their "efficiency" at that...
View ArticleEconomist on "Issuing an accepted paper as a WP"
I work in a research institution with their own WP series, and we actually get some sort of bonus for publishing working papers in that series. A paper of mine has been accepted in a journal which it...
View ArticleEconomist on "Sometimes reading econometrica papers make me feel dumb"
Reading a paper in econometrica now for new project and damn its hard.I recall a year or so ago I spent almost 3 weeks understanding a paper to really move forward (ended up lost cause)Am I only one...
View ArticleEconomist on "LRM complex"
Scrutinize HRM papers in top 5, with the hope of finding some mistakes or omissions
View ArticleEconomist on "Why are academics so easily butt hurt about "ripping off" ideas?"
Do you think Leibniz spent days stewing about Newton?Collecting citations is like winning points in a video game. It's meaningless. Is it the same aspie drive that makes academics go buckwild when...
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