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The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics
DisciplineEconomics
LanguageEnglish
Edited byRobert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer, Stefanie Stantcheva
Publication details
History1886–present
Publisher
Oxford University Press for Harvard University Department of Economics
FrequencyQuarterly
5.920 (2011)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Q. J. Econ.
Indexing
ISSN0033-5533 (print)
1531-4650 (web)
JSTOR00335533
OCLC no.1763227
Links

The Quarterly Journal of Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Oxford University Press for the Harvard University Department of Economics. Its current editors-in-chief are Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer, and Stefanie Stantcheva.

History

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It is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language,[1] and second-oldest in any language after the Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft. It covers all aspects of the field—from the journal's traditional emphasis on micro-theory to both empirical and theoretical macroeconomics.

Editors of the QJE
Editor Period
anonymous 1886-1947
Edward H. Chamberlin 1948-1957
Arthur Smithies 1958-1965
Gottfried Haberler 1966-1970
Richard A. Musgrave 1971-1975
Robert Dorfman 1976-1984
Jerry Green 1978-1980
Olivier J. Blanchard 1980-1998
David Hartman 1980-1984
Joseph P. Kalt 1980-1984
Malcolm Gillis 1980-1980
Richard B. Freeman 1980-1980
Michael Roemer 1981-1984
David A. Wise 1982-1984
Lawrence H. Summers 1985-1990
Eric S. Maskin 1985-1989
Andrei Shleifer 1989-1998, 2013-
Lawrence F. Katz 1991-
Edward L. Glaeser 1999-2008
Alberto Alesina 1999-2003
Robert J. Barro 2004-
Elhanan Helpman 2009-2014
Jeremy C. Stein 2012-2012
Pol Antràs 2015-2021
Stefanie Stantcheva 2020-
Nathan Nunn 2021-

Reception

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According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 6.662, ranking it first out of 347 journals in the category "Economics".[2] It is generally regarded as one of the top 5 journals in economics, together with the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and The Review of Economic Studies.

Notable papers

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Some of the most influential and well-read papers in economics have been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics including:

References

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  1. ^ "The Quarterly Journal of Economics". Oxford Journals. Archived from the original on 14 February 2011. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  2. ^ "About | The Quarterly Journal of Economics". Oxford University Press.
  3. ^ Clark 1891: doi:10.2307/1879611.
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