Submitting a Paper

Send four copies of the manuscript and the submission fee to:

Matthew Spiegel
Yale School of Management
P.O. Box 208200
New Haven, CT 06520-8200

Manuscripts will be processed by that editor who, in the opinion of the three editors, is the most familiar with the topic of the paper.

Once a paper arrives at the journal an e-mail is sent to the corresponding author acknowledging that the paper is under review. If you do not receive an e-mail verifying our receipt of your paper then it has not been processed, and it is likely we do not have it. Please contact the journal to help us determine if your paper has been lost in the mail.

You can help ensure the smooth processing of your paper by making sure it adheres to the recommended style guidelines for initial submissions.

Submission fees

The submission fee is US$170. Most of this is used to defray the cost of having the paper refereed. Paying our referees helps to encourage both quick turnaround times, and quality reports. We hope that you will agree that while this imposes an additional financial cost, it is more than made up by the reduced time from submission to reply.

Payments by Check:

All checks (whether from the U.S. or elsewhere) MUST have "encoding" at the bottom. Banks use this string of numbers to automatically route checks to the appropriate source. If your check does not have encoding it will be returned to you, and you will be asked to send a new check. Without encoding our bank will not process your check!
For payments by check in U.S. dollars by a non-U.S. bank (for example, a check written off of a German bank in U.S. dollars): These checks are not acceptable! Checks must be written against banks with an associated U.S. branch. Acceptable checks have encoding and typically a U.S. clearing bank such as Citibank U.S. noted somewhere on the check.

Payments by Credit Card:

To pay by credit card send a hard copy letter to the editor that includes the credit card issuer (Master Card or Visa), the credit card number, the expiration date, the amount to be charged, and the credit card account holder's signature.

If a decision on a manuscript is not rendered within 100 days the journal will refund the US$170 submission fee. If one or more authors are current Ph.D. students, the journal guarantees a response in 45 days. In order to fall under the expedited policy for Ph.D. students the cover letter should state which author or authors are students, and include the institution from which they are seeking a degree.

There are no page charges. Submission of a paper will be held to imply that it contains original unpublished work and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere.

The Editors do not accept responsibility for damage or loss of papers submitted. Upon acceptance of an article, author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.

A portion of the submission fees will be used to compensate referees who turn in prompt and helpful reports.