Academic economists today are caught in a "Publication Impossibility Theorem System" or PITS. In order to further their … careers, they are required to publish in A-journals, but for the vast majority this is impossible because there are few slots … open for them in such journals. Such academic competition maybe useful to generate hard work; however, there may be serious …

Academic economists today are caught in a ?Publication Impossibility Theorem System? or PITS. To further their careers … in such journals. Such academic competition is held to provide the right incentives for hard work, but there may be …, they are required to publish in A-journals, but this is impossible for the vast majority because there are few slots open …

Academic economists today are caught in a “Publication Impossibility Theorem System” or PITS. To further their careers …, they are required to publish in A-journals, but for the vast majority this is impossible because there are few slots open … in such journals. Such academic competition maybe useful to generate hard work, however, there may be serious negative …

response times (FRT) of economics journals can be related. When the optimal FRT and the norm about how much time refereeing …

The first response time (henceforth FRT) of economics journals has increased over the last four decades from 1-2 months … journals and consequently saves valuable time of referees and editors. The change in the actual FRT is in the same direction as … publication and because the costs of refereeing a paper have increased. …

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 … number of journals stimulates less able authors to submit their papers. The editor can improve the journal's pool of …

We tell of the evolving meaning of the term coordination as used by economists. The paper is based on systematic … electronic searches (on “coord,” etc.) of major works and leading journals. The term coordination first emerged in professional …, transportation economists used the term to describe the concatenation of routes and trips of a transportation system. These usages …