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The Price of Submission

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  • Johan Fourie

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Economics journals ration access to peer review with time and money. A July 2026 census of 500 RePEc-ranked economics journals accepting unsolicited submissions finds that 113 (22.6 per cent) charge a fee, with incidence falling from 68 per cent in the top 50 to 2 per cent in the bottom 50. A sequential-submission model shows that waiting pays part of the capacity-clearing price, leaving the fee as a residual. Because rejected manuscripts move down the ranking, a fee reduces system-wide referee demand only when authors stop, shorten their submission chains or switch to journals requiring fewer reports.

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  • Johan Fourie, 2026. "The Price of Submission," Papers 2608.14760, arXiv.org.
    • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2608.14760
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