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. 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 …, 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 …

Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended … the "taste for science" by a "taste for publication". We suggest as alternatives careful selection and socialization of …