Referee Recommendations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Welch, Ivo
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0893-9454
• DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhu029
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 2773
• 关键词: journals; ECONOMICS; ARTICLES

摘要

This paper quantitatively analyzes referee recommendations at eight prominent economics and finance journals, and the SFS (Society for Financial Studies) Cavalcade Conference, where a known algorithm matched referees to submissions. The behavior of referees was similar in all venues. The referee-specific component in the disposition recommendation was about twice as important as the common component. Referees differed both in their scales (some referees were intrinsically more generous than others) and in their opinions of what a good paper was (they often disagreed about the relative ordering of papers). (JEL A14)