On Publication, Refereeing, and Working Hard

Sascha Baghestanian and Sergey Popov

No 14-04, Economics Working Papers from Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast

Abstract: We present a model for academia with heterogeneous author types and endogenous effort to explain changes in the publication process in Economics. We analyze the implications of these developments on research output. Lowering the precision of refereeing signals lowers effort choices of golden middle authors, but invites more submissions from less able authors. Increasing the number of journals stimulates less able authors to submit their papers. The editor can improve the journal’s quality pool of submitted manuscripts by improving the precision of refereeing, but not by lowering acceptance standards. The submission strategy of an author is informative of his ability.

Keywords: Academia; Publishing; Effort; Refereeing; Journals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2014-10
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