The Young Economist

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The Young Economists Guide to Professional
Etiquette

• by D.S. Hamermesh

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• Publication
• By the end of the first-year full time
  academic job, at least one paper should be sent
  out to a journal.

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• Present your work at seminar and conferences.
• Preparation
• Convey the papers main contribution
• How to handle questions
• Acknowledgement footnote of the paper

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• Strategy for paper submission
• Submission tree
• Concerns
• 1. avoid underselling your work
• 2. good journals usually provide good referee
  reports
• 3. time constraint

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• Should I resubmit the paper?
• 1. Always resubmit the paper unless its
  outright rejection.
• 2. Take at least one week to digest editors
  letter and referee reports.
• 3. The resubmitted paper should include all
  major changes that the referees and editor
  suggested.

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• 4. Minor changes can be included in the
  revision.
• 5. The resubmission letter should summarize
  and justify all the major changes you have made.

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• When your paper is accepted
• 1. Always abide by the style requirements.
• 2. Read the galleys carefully!
• 3. Checking galleys is not the time to amend
  the article.

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What you can do for the profession?

• Comment on others work
• Attending seminars
• How talkative should a young economist be at
  seminars?

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• Refereeing
• Should I review the paper for a journal?
• How to write a referee report
• A major purpose of refereeing is to improve
  research.
• 1. contents
• 2. tone
• 3. do not take more than two months.

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A few general rules

• Do not be hostile.
• Be forthcoming and speak up be assertive without
  pushy.
• Golden rule

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Research Proposal

• Research project's background and goals
• Why is this research interesting?
• Why is this research important?
• Literature review

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• Methods, procedures, and progress
• Environment
• Preference, Technology, Information
• How agents interact (equilibrium concept)
• Government policy (positive or normative)

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• Anticipated results and achievements
• Can I achieve the objectives of this research
  project?