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And even the ninetieth percentile time-to-decision among those sent to referees is sixty-nine days, so a little over two months. Of the ones that are sent to referees, the median time to decision is forty-four days. Tyler Smith: Do you have a sense of how much faster this process might be compared to the American Economic Review ?įinkelstein : About half the papers are summarily rejected-which is I think typical of other journals. It has to be something that can be done, which mean it's expositional. The key distinction for us between a conditional accept and a traditional R&R is there's no uncertainty that the changes can be done, in the sense that we wouldn't do a conditional accept on someone needing to show robustness to “x” or extend the proof in this manner because we don't know whether that could be done. We only either reject the paper or conditionally accept the paper. The other is that we've moved away from the traditional R&R (Revise & Resubmit). One is a word and exhibit limit to keep the papers short. One thing I will say is that there are two key innovations we've made at AER: Insights. (Papers in AER: Insights have a limit of six thousand words)įleisher: Why have papers become so long and authors felt pressured to pack them with so much stuff?įinkelstein : I don't really know. That doesn't mean that all important insights can, and that's why we have-and should continue to have-journals that don't have the kinds of limits that we have on exhibits and words. Sometimes an important insight can be conveyed succinctly. The problem that AER: Insights is designed to solve is that it is very hard to publish in a top-tier general-interest economics journal a paper that is short. I think we need a different type of economics journal. It's not that I think we need another economics journal per se. Your browser does not support the audio element.Ĭhris Fleisher: Why do we need another economics journal?Īmy Finkelstein : That's a great question. The AEA's Chris Fleisher and Tyler Smith spoke with Finkelstein about why the AEA is launching its first new journal in a decade, what it means for researchers, and her hopes for the publication as it makes its debut.Īn edited transcript of that conversation is below and the extended interview can be heard using the audio player.

Long articles have their place, but editor Amy Finkelstein says she hopes that Insights fills a need for a new type of economics journal. The American Economic Review: Insights features latest top-notch, but brief, economics papers in the field. The American Economic Association is attempting to address this issue with the launch of a new journal. The length of papers published in top tier journals has tripled in the past 40 years, expanding to such a degree that readers often struggle to finish them.

1, no.Amy Finkelstein is the editor of The American Economic Review: Insights

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Insights Lccn 2018203851 Media category computer Media MARC source rdamedia Media type code Note From the publisher's website: 'AER: Insights is designed to be a top-tier, general-interest economics journal publishing papers of the same quality and importance as those in the AER, but devoted to publishing papers with important insights that can be conveyed succinctly.' Carrier category online resource Carrier category codeĬarrier MARC source rdacarrier Content category text Content type codeĬontent type MARC source rdacontent Extent 1 online resource (volumes) Form of item online Issn 2640-2068 Key title American economic review.

Nashville, TN, American Economic Association.

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