Economist on "Petition for arXiv to include an Economics section"
Now that SSRN is gone, we need a new repository. What is the method to create a new section in the arXiv?
View ArticleEconomist on "Chaney's new jpe paper"
what's the difference with his previous aer? do people get two top papers for one idea these days?
View ArticleEconomist on "Bros, suggest me the most prestigious robustness check"
Reg monkey here. Want to make my paper nice and polished from all sides. I have just run reg y x, robust. Now I need to do some robustness checks to make my work convincing as much as possible to...
View ArticleEconomist on "Men set their own cites high: Gender and self-citation across...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00376#How common is self-citation in scholarly publication and does the practice vary by gender? Using novel methods and a dataset of 1.5 million research papers in the...
View ArticleEconomist on "[sticky] Bruno Frey et al."
This thread exists to remain on the first page of EJMR until the Bruno Frey et al. mafia is dismantled and heads roll. The continuous effort of every atomic poster is needed.
View ArticleEconomist on "Amiti, Feenstra, Dai, Romalis: How Did China’s WTO Entry...
https://www.princeton.edu/~ies/IESWorkshopS2016/AmitPaper.pdfA shot back across the bow of Pierce/Schott and Autor/Dorn/Hanson?Looks like your grandfather's economics. You boys had better not say...
View ArticleEconomist on "Corrupt Editors/Co-editors/Associate Editors"
Let's have a list of corrupt editors, co-editors, and associate editors who have handled the papers of their coauthors, advisees, or colleagues. If these people are commonly known in the profession,...
View ArticleEconomist on "The Springer Book Archives: All eBooks only $9.99 each"
http://www.springer.com/us/shop/sba-ebooksAny good?
View ArticleEconomist on "Missing replication files"
Files necessary for replication of a study are missing from those provided by the journal on their website. I have asked big-name author for these but still do not have them. What should I do?
View ArticleEconomist on "Varian gives a primer on causality in PNAS"
http://www.pnas.org/content/113/27/7310.full.pdf
View ArticleEconomist on "AER scandal"
What is the "AER Scandal" that people are talking about in another post?
View ArticleEconomist on "Serious question: should I reconsider submission to AER"
I am currently on a paper with a senior economist who expects our paper to land top 5. This is likely one of my only shots to publish that well. In light of the AER scandal, should I push to send it to...
View ArticleEconomist on "Got a huge R&R boys, but..."
F*ck did the editor give me a lot of work to do. Basically he commissioned a different paper. I need this badly, so I'll do it, but there went my summer. Now I'll get to rewrite my JMP from 3 years ago...
View ArticleEconomist on "WHY should ECONOMISTS CARE about PEER EFFECTS?"
I'm reviewing a paper on this and the "why should we care?" is my chief concern. I can't think of a policy connection. Any defenders or haters of peer effects research?
View ArticleEconomist on "Foot note of foot note"
Suppose I have a clarification to make on my paper, which would be typically put in a foot note. Problem is, a part of this note also needs a 'sub-clarification'. Should I use a foot note of a foot...
View ArticleEconomist on "Status: With Journal"
Up until a week ago or so, the status was with the editor and then switched to with journal (Elsevier journal).What does this status mean?
View ArticleEconomist on "Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis"
Someone knows the average turnaround time? I'm waiting since ages to have a referee report. Is that common?
View ArticleEconomist on "Minimum number of tables for a reg monkey paper"
I have the preliminary reg monkey results. I want to write around 40 pages in default LaTeX format. I have 2-3 tables so far that summarize the main results. How many additional tables should I include...
View ArticleEconomist on "Is the Referee Process Fair? Blogpost on new Card & DellaVigna"
http://veratevelde.blogspot.de/2016/07/is-referee-process-fair.html
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