This study examines whether the coauthors of executive editors of the Review of Financial Studies published more papers during the editor’ tenure. The paper finds that not all executive editors are created equal concerning their impartiality toward their coauthors. The results show that George...

Society is not as to people as a tree, it depends on the ideas we apply to create it. Historical views of Karl Marx, and Adam Smith and all derivatives and disciples have failed. This paper adopts the sociological analysis of Why Work, which shows modern society to be fundamentally feudal. The...

The first response time (henceforth FRT) of economics journals has increased over the last four decades from 2 months to 3-6 months. The optimal FRT, however, is not zero, because the FRT deters submission of mediocre papers to good journals and consequently saves valuable time of referees and...

This paper seeks to convince historians that asking how and how much tractability has shaped individual and collective modeling choices in economics is a worthy question. To do so, I survey some of the few instances where economists explicitly discussed the importance of tractability in their...

This elaboration starts by deciphering modern science as a social subsystem being loosely coupled to the rest of society (section 2.1). Additionally, the way in which modern (monistic) economics was generated within this subsystem will be sketched (section 2.2). This will be contrasted with the...

In this paper we explore three claims concerning the disciplinary character of economics by means of citation analysis. The three claims under study are: (1) economics exhibits strong forms of intellectual stratification and, as a byproduct, a rather pronounced internal hierarchy, (2) economists...

Different recent works have shown that Spanish economic research has increased its international presence during the nineties. These works have also found that there is a duality in the diffusion of the research through national or international journals in function of the considered research...

El escenario competitivo en el cual se mueven hoy las empresas se ha configurado a través del proceso histórico que las sociedades humanas han transitado por diversos estadios de su formación económica. De esta manera, una de las características del entorno competitivo actual es el paso de...