8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Introduction

Hashem Dezhbakhsh, Hugo Mialon, Laurie Patton, President James Wagner

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

How to Publish in a Top Journal

Daniel Hamermesh, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin
Associate Editor of Industrial and Labor Relations Review

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Authors, Reviewers, and Editors: Reflections on the Publishing Game

John Geer, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University

Editor of Journal of Politics

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

What Readers Want

Randy Hodson, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University
Editor of American Sociological Review

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

How Should Authors Think of Authorship and Research?

Esfandiar Maasoumi, Department of Economics, Emory University
Editor of Econometric Reviews

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Roundtable: Writing, Journal Selection, and Revision

Daniel Hamermesh, Randy Hodson, Sam Kortum, Alessandro Lizzeri, Ron Rogowski

Moderator: Tao Zha, Department of Economics, Emory University, and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Associate Editor of Journal of Econometrics

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Lunch Break

2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Publishing Economics and the Economics of Technical Change

Sam Kortum, Department of Economics, University of Chicago
Editor of Journal of Political Economy

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Some (Two-sided) Problems with the Publication Process in Economics

Alessandro Lizzeri, Department of Economics, New York University
Editor of American Economic Review

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Coffee Break

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

How the Review Process at APSR Works, and What Referees (and We) Seem to Like

Ron Rogowski, Department of Political Science, UCLA

Editor of American Political Science Review

4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

The Use of Journal Rankings in the Selection of Publication Outlets

Micheal Giles, Department of Political Science, Emory University
Past Editor of Journal of Politics

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Roundtable: Editorial Strategies and Refereeing

Jay Shanken, Alessandro Lizzeri, Sam Kortum, Ron Rogowski, Randy Hodson

Moderator: Paul Rubin, Department of Economics, Emory University
Editor of Managerial and Decision Economics