Discussants

Co-Pierre Georg, Daniel Opolot and Michael Rose

VfS Annual Conference 2019 (Leipzig): 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Democracy and Market Economy from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: This study is the first to examine the role of discussants in academic knowledge production. Comparing articles of similar quality with andwithout discussants,we find that having a discussant increases a paper's probability of publication in prestigious journals, but not its citation count. Conditional on having a discussant, citation count and probability of publication in a prestigious journal increase in the discussants' prolificness. This supports the existence of a quality channel through which discussants improve the inherent quality of a paper. Conversely, we do not find evidence for the existence of a diffusion channel whereby papers garner more citations because discussants diffuse information about the paper within their social network.

Keywords: Discussants; Intellectual collaboration; Academic Impact; NBER Summer Institutes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 D83 G00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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