Working Paper: CEPR ID: DP16990
Authors: Otto Toivanen; Yossi Spiegel
Abstract: Disseminating research results through academic conferences is important for scientific progress.We shed light on this process and on research in IO using data from five annual conferencesof the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE). Our data has theadvantage that we observe the grades that each submission received from two members of thescientific committee, and also observe whether, where, and when submitted papers were pub-lished, and how many citations published papers have received. Among other things, we finddisagreements between reviewers about grades in almost half of the cases, though large disagree-ments occurred in only 6% of the cases. Between 40% 50% of the submitted papers remainunpublished years after the conference and those that are published, take over 3 years to getpublished. Presentation at the conference is associated with a higher likelihood of publishing inan IO journal, although only 19% of the published papers are in IO journals. Empirical papersand co-authored papers are more likely to get published and get more citations when published.Accepted papers receive more citations when published and publications in economics journalsreceive substantially fewer citations than publications in adjacent fields like entrepreneurshipand finance.
Keywords: conference submission; presentation; publication; ranking; citations
JEL Codes: A14; L00; O39
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| presentation at the conference (A32) | higher probability of publishing in an IO journal (C67) |
| empirical and experimental papers (C90) | higher probability of publication than theoretical papers (C46) |
| co-authored papers (A31) | higher probability of publication than single-authored papers (C92) |
| accepted papers (Y40) | more citations than rejected ones (A14) |
| theoretical papers (C01) | 59% fewer citations than empirical papers (A14) |
| experimental papers (C90) | 55% fewer citations than empirical papers (A14) |
| publications in adjacent fields (Y80) | substantially more citations compared to those in economics (A14) |