published since 1975. Peer review improves quality, but its use to screen papers has met with limited success. Current … procedures to assure quality and fairness seem to discourage scientific advancement, especially important innovations, because …

complexity in improving cost, quality, variety, and time--to--market performance variables. Management of design complexity is …

complexity in improving cost, quality, variety, and time--to--market performance variables. Management of design complexity is …

seller with no means to signal his quality has the possibility to be certified by an institution that owns a technology to … discover the true quality and can credibly commit to a disclosure rule. We study the incentives of this institution to disclose …

account changes in the quality of goods and services over time. This paper outlines the derivation of measures that lead to … quantification of the “community preference for its perceptions of improved unmeasured quality” in products. The measures are based … on the proposition that individuals behave in such a manner as to maximise their quality of life. This is expressed by …

Rewards for publications in good economics journals are very high, while submission fees and other monetary costs … submission cost (from the author’s perspective). Reducing the delay will induce many additional submissions of low-quality papers …