----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- From: "Conley, John" <[log in to unmask]> To: Subject: HES: Economics Bulletin, Call for papers Date sent: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:01:20 -0500 Dear Colleague, I am writing to announce the launch of the Economics Bulletin and to invite you to contribute your work to this new and innovative journal. The Economics Bulletin is a peer-reviewed journal archived at the University of Illinois that is intended to be a direct competitor to Economics Letters. The major difference is that EB is entirely electronic, from submission and refereeing to publication. All work that appears in EB will be available free of charge and without subscription. Our primary mission is to publish refereed Notes, Comments and Preliminary Results with a view to keeping the profession informed about ongoing research programs. We also publish non-refereed research announcements, conference announcements and letters to the editor. You can access this new journal and make submissions at the following URL: www.economicsbulletin.com. Our entire editorial board (listed below) joins me in hoping that you will consider submitting your work to EB, joining our automatic email notification service and registering in our directory of research economists. The Economic Bulletin offers authors and the profession at large a number of significant advantages. (See www.economicsbulletin.com/mission.asp for a more complete discussion.) 1. Speed: Our submission and review process is completely electronic. If a paper is accepted, it is published immediately. Our objective is to provide authors with a decision within eight weeks. 2. Open access: The Economics Bulletin is based on an open access model. All of EB's contents will be made available free of charge on a permanent basis. The University of Illinois Library has guaranteed that it will archive and make publicly available all articles published in EB, even if it should cease publication. 3. Wide distribution: In addition to the open access we offer, EB has an email notification service that allows users to sign up for automatic alerts of work published in their areas of interest. All content published in EB is also automatically fed into the IDEAS bibliographic database. 4. Copyrights: Authors retain full rights to use all work they publish in EB in any way they see fit. 5. Subscription costs: One of EB's purposes is to demonstrate that the profession can produce a journal without the help of commercial publishers and the high subscription prices they charge (For example, Elsevier charges $1,592 for Economics Letters). We are part of a larger effort to move control of scholarly communication back into the hands of the researchers who produce it. See Ted Bergstrom's page for more information on problem of high journal subscription prices: www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb I hope you will join me in supporting the Economics Bulletin. Please feel free to forward this message to anyone you believe might be interested. Statement of Purpose: The mission of the Economics Bulletin is to foster free and extremely rapid scientific communication across the entire community of research economists. In order to meet this goal, we will rely on the technology of the World Wide Web. EB will publish original notes, comments, and preliminary results. We are especially interested in publishing manuscripts that keep the profession informed about ongoing research programs. Submissions in these categories will be refereed and our objective is to make a decision within eight week. Accepted papers are published immediately. It is expected that in many cases, manuscripts published in these categories will form the foundation for more complete works subsequently to be submitted to other journals. In all cases, submissions are restricted to seven printed pages exclusive of references, appendices, tables and figures, and must be in PDF format. EB will also publish letters to the editor, announcements of conferences and research announcements. Editor: John Conley, University of Illinois Founding Editor: Myrna Wooders, University of Warwick Advisory Editors: Robert Aumann, Hebrew University James Heckman, University of Chicago Leonid Hurwicz, University of Minnesota Hervé Moulin, Rice University Stanley Reiter, Northwestern University Paul Romer, Stanford University Eric van Damme, Tilburg University Associate Editors: James Andreoni, University of Wisconsin Theodore Bergstrom, University of California at Santa Barbara Francis Bloch, GREQAM, University of Aix Marseille Michele Boldrin, University of Minnesota Eric Bond, Pennsylvania State University Josef Brada, Arizona State University Carlo Carraro, University of Venice Menzie Chinn, University of California, Santa Cruz Timothy Conley, Northwestern University Andrew Daughety, Vanderbilt University Jon Davis, University of Wisconsin Raymond Deneckere, University of Wisconsin Michael B. Devereux, University of British Columbia Michael P. Devereux, University of Warwick Bhaskar Dutta, Indian Statistical Institute Zvi Eckstein, Tel Aviv University and Boston University Sebastian Edwards, University of California, Los Angeles Roger Farmer, University of California, Los Angeles Firouz Gahvari, University of Illinois Gary Gorton, University of Pennsylvania Simon Grant, Australian National University D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound Eric Hanushek, Hoover Institute Hugo Hopenhayn, University of Rochester and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Ken Judd, Hoover Institute Charles Kahn, University of Illinois Atsushi Kajii, University of Tsukuba Peter Kennedy, Simon Fraser University Charles Kolstad, University of California at Santa Barbara Hideo Konishi, Boston College Chung-Ming Kuan, Academia Sinica Cuong Le Van, CNRS/University of Paris I Patrick Legros, ECARES David Levine, University of California, Los Angeles David Li, University of Hong Kong William Maloney, World Bank Robert Margo, Vanderbilt University Joseph McCahery, Tilburg University Paulo Klinger Monteiro, EPGE-FGV, Brazil Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University Kevin Murphy, University of Southern California Barry O'Neill, Stanford University Kevin O'Rourke, Trinity College, University of Dublin Keijiro Otsuka, Tokyo Metropolitan University Adrian Pagan, Australian National University and Oxford University Frank H. Page, Jr., University of Alabama Thomas Palfrey, California Institute of Technology Neil Pearson, University of Illinois Charles Phelps, University of Rochester Robert Porter, Northwestern University Debraj Ray, New York University Raymond G. Riezman, University of Iowa Arthur Robson, University of Western Ontario Stuart Rosenthal, Syracuse University John Rust, Yale University Murat Sertel, Bogaziçi University Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto William Strange, University of British Columbia Mark Taylor, University of Warwick Thijs ten Raa, Tilburg University Henry Tulkens, CORE Stephen Turnovsky, University of Washington Ping Wang, Vanderbilt University Roy Weintraub, Duke University John Whalley, University of Warwick Michelle J. White, University of California at San Diego and RAND John Wooders, University of Arizona We apologize if you receive more than one copy of this announcement. E. 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