Economics papers in top 5 journals

A new NBER working paper by David Card and Stefano Della Vigna  offers a window on publishing in "top-5" economics journals, and how it has changed over time. For one thing, the number of submissions has gone up, while the number of papers published has gone down (and the number of top-5 journals seems to have remained constant...)

 These figures are from  NINE FACTS ABOUT TOP JOURNALS IN ECONOMICS
by David Card, and Stefano DellaVigna
Working Paper 18665, http://www.nber.org/papers/w18665