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, 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.

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! Editor !! Period

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|anonymous || 1886-1947

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|Edward H. Chamberlin || 1948-1957

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|Arthur Smithies || 1958-1965

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|Gottfried Haberler || 1966-1970

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|Richard A. Musgrave || 1971-1975

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|Robert Dorfman || 1976-1984

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|Jerry Green || 1978-1980

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|Olivier J. Blanchard || 1980-1998

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|David Hartman || 1980-1984

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|Joseph P. Kalt || 1980-1984

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|Malcolm Gillis || 1980-1980

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|Richard B. Freeman || 1980-1980

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|Michael Roemer || 1981-1984

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|David A. Wise || 1982-1984

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|Lawrence H. Summers || 1985-1990

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|Eric S. Maskin || 1985-1989

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|Andrei Shleifer || 1989-1998, 2013-

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|Lawrence F. Katz ||1991-

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|Edward L. Glaeser || 1999-2008

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|Alberto Alesina || 1999-2003

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|Robert J. Barro || 2004-

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|Elhanan Helpman || 2009-2014

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|Jeremy C. Stein || 2012-2012

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|Pol Antràs || 2015-2021

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|Stefanie Stantcheva || 2020-

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|Nathan Nunn || 2021-

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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". 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
  • "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

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