The Quarterly Journal of Economics
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| Discipline | Economics |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Pol Antràs, Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Andrei Shleifer |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1886–present |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press for Harvard University Department of Economics |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 5.920 (2011) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Q. J. Econ. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0033-5533 (print) 1531-4650 (web) |
| JSTOR | 00335533 |
| OCLC no. | 1763227 |
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Oxford University Press. Its current editors-in-chief are Pol Antràs, Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, and Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University). It is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language,[1] and covers all aspects of the field—from the journal's traditional emphasis on microtheory, to both empirical and theoretical macroeconomics. 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]
Some of the most influential and well-read papers in economics have been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics including:
- "Distribution as Determined by a Law of Rent" (1891), by John B. Clark[3]
- "The Positive Theory of Capital and Its Critics" (1895), by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
- "Petty's Place in the History of Economic Theory" (1900), by Charles Henry Hull
- "Fallacies in the Interpretation of Social Cost" (1924), by Frank H. Knight
- "The General Theory of Employment" (1937), by John Maynard Keynes (an expansion on Keynes' General Theory)
- "The Interpretation of Voting in the Allocation of Economic Resources" (1943), by Howard Rothmann Bowen
- "A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth" (1956), by Robert Solow
- "The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism" (1970), by George Akerlof
- "Job Market Signaling" (1973), by Michael Spence
- "Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets: The economics of markets with imperfect information" (1976), by Michael Rothschild and Joseph Stiglitz
- "A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility" (1988), by Robert Barro and Gary Becker
- "A Theory of Competition among Pressure Groups for Political Influence" (1983), by Gary Becker
- "A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth" (1992), by N. Gregory Mankiw, David Romer, and David N. Weil
- "Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting" (1997), by David Laibson
- "Does Social Capital Have An Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation" (1997) by Stephen Knack and Philip Keefer
- "A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation" (1999), by Ernst Fehr and Klaus M. Schmidt
- "Monetary Policy Rules And Macroeconomic Stability: Evidence And Some Theory" (2000), by Richard Clarida, Jordi Galí, and Mark Gertler
- "Information Technology, Workplace Organization, and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-Level Evidence" (2002) by Timothy F. Bresnahan, Erik Brynjolfsson and Lorin M. Hitt
References
- ^ "The Quarterly Journal of Economics". Oxford Journals. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "About | The Quarterly Journal of Economics". Oxford University Press.
- ^ Clark 1891: doi:10.2307/1879611.