Quarterly Journal of Economics
Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
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Q. J. Econ. |
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Discipline | Economics |
Language | English |
Edited by | Robert J. Barro, Elhanan Helpman, Lawrence F. Katz, Andrei Shleifer |
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Publisher |
Oxford University Press for Harvard University Department of Economics
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Publication history
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1886–present |
Frequency | Quarterly |
5.920 | |
Indexing | |
ISSN | 0033-5533 (print) 1531-4650 (web) |
OCLC no. | 1763227 |
JSTOR | 00335533 |
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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 Robert J. Barro, Elhanan Helpman, Lawrence F. Katz, and Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University). It is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language,[citation needed] 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 2011 impact factor of 5.920, ranking it second out of 320 journals in the category "Economics".[1]
Some of the most influential and well-read papers in economics have been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics,[citation needed] including:[according to whom?][original research?]
- "Distribution as Determined by a Law of Rent" (1891), by John B. Clark
- "The Positive Theory of Capital and Its Critics" (1895), by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
- "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" (1980), 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[edit]
- ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Economics". 2011 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2012.