Article(electronic)August 2002

Quality Control in Economics

In: Kyklos: international review for social sciences, Volume 55, Issue 3, p. 315-334

Laband, David N.; Tollison, Robert D.; Karahan, Gokhan

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the editorial screening process in economics, employing data from the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. We examine three issues: the decline of critical commentary in economics, the increased referencing behavior of authors, and the decline in the citation of economic research. We find that there is empirical evidence in favor of the idea that these trends are mostly due to more ex ante investment by authors in their papers and less need for ex post quality control.We appreciate helpful comments received from William Shughart, John Sophocleus, and the editors of Kyklos. The usual caveat applies.

Languages

English

Publisher

Wiley

ISSN: 1467-6435

DOI

10.1111/1467-6435.00189

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