We just received a nice piece of appreciation: The Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics informed us that our paper, “Firms, Nonprofits and Cooperatives: A Theory of Organizational Choice” (joint with Patrick Herbst) is in the top 5 most downloaded papers of the journal during 2016. Apparently, this equals > 500 downloads.
Given that the business of publishing research in economics is tough—and rejections are very frequent (and necessary to get acceptance rates of 10% and below at the top journals)—receiving such positive information is balm for the soul…
A brief description of the paper is here.
Jens Prüfer 