TY  - JOUR
AU  - Cherkashin,Ivan
AU  - Demidova,Svetlana
AU  - Imai,Susumu
AU  - Krishna,Kala
TI  - The Inside Scoop: Acceptance and Rejection at the Journal of International Economics
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13957
PY  - 2008
Y2  - April 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13957
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13957.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Ivan Cherkashin
Research School of Economics
College of Business & Economics
Australian National University
H W Arndt building, Room 1008
Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia
E-Mail: ivan.cherkashin@anu.edu.au

Svetlana Demidova
Department of Economics
McMaster University
Canada
E-Mail: demidov@mcmaster.ca

Susumu Imai
Department of Economics
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
E-Mail: imais@econ.queensu.ca

Kala Krishna
Department of Economics
523 Kern Graduate Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Tel: 814/865-1106
Fax: 814/863-4775
E-Mail: kmk4@psu.edu
AB  - There is little work on the inner workings of journals. What factors seem to affect the ability to publish in a journal? Could simple rules (which are already used by some journals) like the desk rejection of a significant minority of papers, help to streamline the process?  At what cost? How well do journals seem to do in choosing papers? What can we say about the extent of type 1 and type 2 errors? Do editors seem to have uniform standards or are some harsher than others? We use data on submissions to the Journal of International Economics to help answer these questions.
ER  -