Editor's report.

• Author: Razzolini, Laura
• Position: Editorial

Editorial Statistics

From January 1, 2007, through December 31, 2007, the Editorial Office received 295 new manuscript submissions. Table 1 shows the time between submission and the Journal's first response, whether to reject, ask for a revision, or accept a manuscript, for the 295 manuscripts submitted during 2007. About 97% of the submitting authors received a response within six months, and only three papers received a first response after more than six months.

Table 2 shows the number of submissions and accepted manuscripts from 1997 to 2007. After an initial decline in 1997, mostly due to the change in editorship, submissions and acceptances have been steady.

Table 3 shows the distribution of published papers in 2005-2007 by subject, using JEL codes. Considerable fluctuation appears in the number of papers in each category over the three-year period considered.

Editorial Staff

The Editorial Board for calendar year 2007 consisted of Christopher Bollinger of the University of Kentucky, Kent Kimbrough of Duke University, John Pepper of the University of Virginia, and me. I thank my co-editors for their hard work and insights, as they continue to make a great contribution to the Journal and to the economic profession.

Manuscripts are submitted to the Journal using Editorial Express, the Internet-based electronic system provided by Professor John Rust and his associates. Once submitted, papers are assigned by the Editor to one of the Co-Editors or to the Editor herself for the refereeing process. Papers are assigned according to the field of expertise of each member of the editorial board. All responsibility for handling the manuscripts, including the final decision, rests with the editor to whom the manuscript was originally assigned.

Manuscripts are reviewed using a double-blind process: The name of the author is removed from the paper and not revealed to the reviewers, and the referees' identities are not disclosed to the authors.

The Editors rely heavily on the Board of Associate Editors for advice in the evaluation of manuscripts. On behalf of my fellow co-editors, I thank the associate editors for their help in our editorial tasks. Finally, we cannot forget the nearly 700 referees who have spent time and energy during 2007 reading and offering valuable...