AER: Insights has an acceptance rate of 3%. That is amazingly low relative to my prior. Median turnaround is 54 days www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

What's interesting is that it isn't THAT much faster than, say, the AER: median turnaround is 77 days.

Economics really should have a discussion of how to fix what I view as a badly broken process of how we publish research. We are in a bad equilibrium, which discourages research progress.

Not so surprised, given they reject papers with unanimous cond. accept reports.

The problem with gatekeeping is that it is self-defeating because it limits the visibility of your brand. Hence, the emergence of other formats. But the problem remains because these journals are not really meant to be a solution.

I find that it really an interesting journal to read, across fields too.