When do referees shirk in a peer review process?

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  • Sahana Roy Chowdhury International Management Institute, Kolkata

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https://doi.org/10.17811/ebl.5.2.2016.45-49

Abstract

This note obtains conditions for existence of shirking referees in peer review process. When referees are heterogeneous say, bad ($b$) and good ($g$), only for a medium range of probability of getting a good paper $p$, both referees prefer reading over shirking. It never happens that $b$ reads while $g$ shirks. Both prefer `shirking and rejecting (accepting)' if $p$ is low (high) enough. The paper shows that a two-referee cross-examination review reduces the error of accepting a bad paper only for a small range of probability.

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Published

20-07-2016

How to Cite

Roy Chowdhury, S. (2016). When do referees shirk in a peer review process?. Economics and Business Letters, 5(2), 45–49. https://doi.org/10.17811/ebl.5.2.2016.45-49

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