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Price premiums for journal quality and journal governance: Evidence from economics journals

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  • Zheng, Yuqing
  • Kaiser, Harry M.

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We quantify the impacts of journal governance (for-profit status, society affiliation, and publisher), quality (impact factor and citations), and costs on the institutional subscription prices of the core economics journals. Empirical results show that quality has a much smaller influence.

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  • Zheng, Yuqing & Kaiser, Harry M., 2011. "Price premiums for journal quality and journal governance: Evidence from economics journals," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 112(1), pages 125-127, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:112:y:2011:i:1:p:125-127
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    1. Theodore C. Bergstrom, 2001. "Free Labour for Costly Journals?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 15(4), pages 183-198, Fall.
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