Tactical Refereeing and Signaling by Publishing

Sergey Popov

No E2022/14, Cardiff Economics Working Papers from Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section

Abstract: A peer review is used ubiquitously in hiring, promotional, and evaluation decisions, within academia and beyond. It is usually conducted to allocate limited resources, such as the budget of a funder or the pages of a journal. With limited capacity, a peer review may lead to negatively biased evaluations precisely because approving a peer s worthy project lowers the chance that a referee s own project will be approved. I show that limited capacity is inconsistent with a hypothesis that the decision-maker s policy is to stimulate efforts, and I discuss possible decision-maker motivations that could lead to a limited capacity policy.

Keywords: refereeing; peer review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2022-07
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