The Quarterly Journal of Economics explained

The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Editor:	Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer, Stefanie Stantcheva
Discipline:	Economics
Abbreviation:	Q. J. Econ.
Publisher:	Oxford University Press for Harvard University Department of Economics
Frequency:	Quarterly
History:	1886–present
Impact:	5.920
Impact-Year:	2011
Website:	https://academic.oup.com/qje
Link1:	https://academic.oup.com/qje/issue
Link1-Name:	Online access
Jstor:	00335533
Oclc:	1763227
Issn:	0033-5533
Eissn:	1531-4650

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

It is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language,^[1] and second-oldest in any language after the . 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
	1948-1957
	1958-1965
	1966-1970
	1971-1975
	1976-1984
	1978-1980
	1980-1998
David Hartman	1980-1984
Joseph P. Kalt	1980-1984
Malcolm Gillis	1980-1980
	1980-1980
Michael Roemer	1981-1984
David A. Wise	1982-1984
	1985-1990
	1985-1989
	1989-1998, 2013-
	1991-
	1999-2008
	1999-2003
	2004-
	2009-2014
	2012-2012
	2015-2021
	2020-
	2021-

Reception

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

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

External links

• Official homepage

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Quarterly Journal of Economics. https://web.archive.org/web/20110214220821/http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/. dead. 14 February 2011. Oxford Journals. 16 December 2016.
2. Web site: About The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Oxford University Press.
3. Clark 1891: .