^ agreed, two genuinely great writers (or even one great writer??)
Want an easy top pub?
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Why is this objectionable again? If I own intellectual property, I should be free to sell it.
Because it is fraud. Your employer is hiring or promoting the person who wrote the papers. It is more similar to paying someone to take a your GRE, or a driver/pilot's exam, or complete your medical residency on your behalf. There are reasons that that should not be allowed.
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Did the paper get published?
I have a new paper that I consider my best work. For a variety of reasons, the marginal return professionally for this paper is very small for me. But I think it has an excellent shot a top
journal, I would estimate 1/3 at the AER (I have published there before). So I am offering it for sale. Here are the details:
1. This paper is not yet posted on my website. It has not been circulated and I have not yet presented it.
2. The paper is applied micro although I will sell it to anyone.
3. Email bids to econpubforsale@hotmail.com. Use a fake account and make sure to send no revealing information.
4. Your bid is for an AER or QJE. If it ends in Restud, you pay 65%. If it ends in the Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, or EJ, you pay 35%. Other journals are negotiable. You can choose the submission path as long as it starts with one of the top journals.
5. I will contact the winning bid (or highest real bid) to arrange an in person meeting in Philly at the meetings. We will never leave a paper trail.
6. Half of payment is due with a revise and resubmit. I will also make the needed changes. The final half is due with final acceptance.
7. Spare me any discussion of the ethics here. I am dead serious and I will not be commenting further on this thread. -
So OP, after all this time, would you tell us if (1) you made the deal, (2) final price paid, and (3) paper was published and where (rough idea, top 5, top field, etc?).
Yes
$412'019
top 5amazing! never thought you will make more than 100K> I underestimated how desperate needed for a top5 publication people are