Diary-Dec 2008

Dec 5
Sinterklaas eve is about exchanging gifts and writing a poem for somebody else. The poem should be as provacative and funny as possible. And that's where the "DP" showed up. So~~what does "DP" mean, as an acronym?
Ans: deep penetration, and...maybe...double penetration.
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Dec 26

Several months ago, I submitted a paper to a third-tier journal, and the paper was rejected recently. The result is not surprising, because it was really just like a simple exercise in an econometrics course. By the way...though the article has been revised by a native speaker, one of the reviewer still criticized: "The English writing need much improvement"

Reviewer#1:

The paper is largely an exercise in replicating earlier studies using data from Taiwan manufacturing. The authors need to be more careful with a number of conceptual and measurement issues in order to make the results more persuasive.

Reviewer#2:

The framework of this paper is completely following previous studies. The main argument of this study is to investigate and compare the determinants of capital structure for SMEs and LSEs. However, authors proposed the same framework for SMEs and LSEs. The empirical results do not provide new insights of capital structure. Hence, the contribution is marginal.