Applied Economics Research Bulletin: Author information
Content:
High quality manuscripts that deal with any domain of Economics, Marketing and JDM are welcome. While mathematical works are especially welcome, we are equally open to papers using experimental approaches, survey research and other methodologies. Preliminary results and short notes are also welcome. Papers normally targeted at journals like Economics Letters or Marketing Letters would be especially appropriate. We expect that manuscripts published in the Applied Economics Research Bulletin will, in some cases, form the foundations for more refined works that will subsequently be submitted to other leading journals.
We are also open to publishing a manuscript that has already been published elsewhere, if you can convince the AE's that your work needs renewed visibility (it would be your responsibility to get the necessary copyright clearance from the copyright owners). And unlike most journals, we welcome confirmations and extensions.
Submission:
Submitting a manuscript is extremely simple.
1. To submit a manuscript to the
Applied Economics Research Bulletin, all you need to do is email a pdf** of your paper to
questions (aT) BerkeleyMath (d0T) com with a cc to Kathy Weaver [weaver.aerbulletin (aT) gmail (d0T) com]. The paper you send us is exactly how the paper, if accepted, will be published. After you send us your manuscript, you can expect to hear directly from one of the Associate Editors with an accept, reject, conditional accept or revise-and-resubmit decision.
There are no specific requirements on manuscript length, format, or style in which references or tables are laid out, etc. Furthermore, your paper can be as long or as short as you want and in whatever style or format you wish. We trust your judgment and in the interest of prompt dissemination of ideas, we have absolutely no such requirements.
2. Specify whether you are submitting the manuscript as a Regular Paper or as a working paper to be included in the AER Bulletin Peer-Reviewed Working Paper Series. Manuscripts submitted to the AER Bulletin Peer-Reviewed Working Paper Series will be processed more quickly while manuscripts submitted as Regular Papers will have (relatively) longer lead times and will be held to a higher reviewing standard.
No submission fee:
There is no fee to submit a manuscript to the Applied Economics Research Bulletin. Instead we will offer special incentives to ensure quick turnaround times and (hopefully) ameliorate the free-rider problem. Paper submitters enter into an informal agreement to review other papers for the Applied Economics Research Bulletin. Every Submitter incurs a debt of one unit, which can be repaid by reviewing one paper in a prompt manner. In the extreme, if the Submitter is unwilling to review papers, the Submitter can redeem the unit debt by making a payment of $100, although this is certainly not the desired response. In the same vein, Referees receive a credit of one unit for each paper that they review, which can be redeemed when they submit their own papers to the journal. The journal does not enforce a formal contract but will rely on the honor system.
** To create pdf documents, a completely free pdf creator is available from pdfforge.org. All researchers are encouraged to use freeware (and often superior) alternatives to commercial systems: examples would be
PDF Forge Creator to create pdf files,
Foxit to read pdf files,
OpenOffice instead of Office,
Gmail for email,
Maxima instead of Mathematica or Maple,
RLaB,
Scilab or
Octave instead of Matlab,
R instead of S or S-plus,
PSPP instead of SPSS,
Applied Economics Research Bulletin instead of
Economics Letters, etc.