Quality Control in Economics.
This paper analyzes the editorial screening process in economics, employing data from the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. We examine three issues: the decline of critical commentary in economics, the increased referencing behavior of authors, and the decline in the citation of economic research. We find that there is empirical evidence in favor of the idea that these trends are mostly due to more ex ante investment by authors in their papers and less need for ex post quality control. Copyright 2002 by WWZ and Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag AG
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2002
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Authors: | Laband, David N ; Tollison, Robert D ; Karahan, Gokhan R |
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Kyklos. - Wiley Blackwell, ISSN 0023-5962. - Vol. 55.2002, 3, p. 315-34
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Wiley Blackwell |
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