Popov, Sergey V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6899-9293
2025.
Tactical refereeing and signaling by publishing.
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10.1111/kykl.70021
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.70021
Abstract
Peer review is usually conducted to allocate limited resources, such as the budget of a funder or the pages of a journal. Limited capacity may bias peer evaluations, precisely because approving a peer's worthy project consumes capacity, jeopardizing the referee's own project's chances. I show that limiting capacity is inconsistent with a hypothesis that the decision-maker desires to stimulate efforts. I show that the desire to strengthen the signaling message of the acceptance decision could lead to limiting the capacity, endogenously creating a tragedy of informational commons problem.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Published Online |
| Status: | In Press |
| Schools: | Schools > Business (Including Economics) |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare Q Science > Q Science (General) |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| ISSN: | 0023-5962 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 24 September 2025 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 23 September 2025 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Oct 2025 09:00 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/181268 |
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