The Economic Journal

Published on behalf of the Royal Economic Society

Edited by:
Antonio Ciccone, Steve Machin (Features Editor), David Myatt, Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Andrew Scott (Managing Editor)

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 24/191 Economics
Impact Factor: 1.548

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The Economic Journal is among the foremost of the learned journals in economics, and is invaluable to anyone with an active interest in economic issues.  It is a key source for professional economists in higher education, business, government service and the financial sector, and represents unbeatable value for those who want to keep abreast in current thinking in economics. In recent years the number of pages has increased (it now contains 8 issues a year) while the price has been held down.

TopNews and Announcements

Rated as an "A*" class journal in the Australian Business Dean Council ABDC Journal List. The Council seeks to list journals relevant to Australian business academics and group them into four categories (A*, A, B & C).

2009 Annual Conference - Call for Papers
The 2009 of the Annual Conference of the RES is due to be held at the University of Surrey from Monday 20th to Wednesday 22nd of April, 2009. The RES has extended a call for papers for General Sessions, and will be accepting submissions from the end of July to October 17th, 2008. Click here for More Details.

Call for Nominations: 17th Annual Kenneth J. Arrow Award
The International Health Economics Association (iHEA) is pleased to invite nominations for the Seventeenth Annual Kenneth J. Arrow Award in Health Economics for the best paper in health economics in 2008. Click here for more details.

RES Annual Public Lecture
Video and audio podcasts of the 2007 Annual Public Lecture - "Climate Change, Ethics and the Economics of the Global Deal" by Lord Stern - are available to download from the Society website. Click here

To view the podcast of the 2006 Annual Public Lecture - "War and Peace in Africa" by Professor Paul Collier Click here

Annual Conference
The 2008 Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society was held at the University of Warwick from 17th to 19th March.  Click here for more details


Free online access to the lead article from each issue

2008
November Issue
Trade and Empire
Kris James Mitchener, Marc Weidenmier

October Issue
'Irresponsible Lending' With A Better Informed Lender
Roman Inderst

August Issue
Price Competition, Business Hours and Shopping Time Flexibility
Oz Shy, Rune Stenbacka

July Issue
Information and Strategic Political Polarisation
Juan D. Carrillo and Micael Castanheira

June Issue
The Economics of Wine - Introduction
Alan Duncan and David Greenaway

April Issue
Games Parents and Adolescents Play: Risky Behaviour, Parental Reputation and Strategic Transfers
Lingxin Hao, V. Joseph Hotz and Ginger Z. Jin

March Issue
What Have We Learned from Market Design?
Alvin E. Roth

February Issue
Feature: The Price of Reconciliation: Part-Time Work, Families and Women's Satisfaction
Mary Gregory and Sara Connolly

January Issue
Time Consistency and Bureaucratic Budget Competition
Kai A. Konrad and Sebastian G. Kessing


2007
November Issue
Quality, Trade and the Moving Window: The Globalisation Process
John Sutton

October Issue
Close Neighbours Matter: Neighbourhood Effects on Early Performance at School
Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin

July Issue
Equilibrium in the Jungle
Michele Piccione and Ariel Rubinstein

June Issue
Does Employment Protection Reduce Productivity? Evidence From US States
David H. Autor, William R. Kerr and Adriana D. Kugler

April issue
Can Comparative Advantage Explain the Growth of us Trade?
Alejandro Cuñat and Marco Maffezzoli

March issues
What Have you Done for me Lately? Release of Information and Strategic Manipulation of Memories
Yianis Sarafidis

Household Heterogeneity and Real Exchange Rates
Narayana R. Kocherlakota and Luigi Pistaferri

February issue
The empirics of microfinance: what do we know?
Niels Hermes and Robert Lensink

January issue
Welfare reform in European countries: a microsimulation analysis
Herwig Immervoll, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Emmanuel Saez


Free Online Access for RES Members
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TopHighlights

Forthcoming in 2008
Staying in the Classroom and out of the Maternity Ward? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births
Sandra Black, Paul J. Devereux & Kjell G. Salvanes

Interpretations of Utility and their Implications for the Valuation of Health
Paul Dolan & Daniel Kahneman

Contradiction as a Form of Contractual Incompleteness
Dana Heller & Ran Spiegler

Interest Rate Restrictions in a Natural Experiment: Loan Allocation and the Change in the Usury Laws in 1714
Peter Temin & Hans-Joachim Voth

Information and Strategic Political Polarization
Juan D. Carrillo & Micael Ricardo Castanheira

The Gender Gap in Early-Career Wage Growth
Alan Manning & Joanna Swaffield

Time Consistency and the Bureaucratic Budget Competition
Kai A. Konrad & Sebastian Kessing

Games Parents and Adolescents Play: Risky Behaviours, Parental Reputation and Strategic Transfers
Ginger Jin, Lingxin Hao & Joseph Hotz

TopEndorsements

"A very comprehensive, professional journal by a most historic society, worthy to say: u (EJ) = [u (AER) + u (Econometrica) + u (J. Econ. Lit.)]/3. "
Michio Morishima

"The Economic Journal has a very long and probably the most distinguished history of all the professional journals in economics. All-time greats like Edgeworth, Keynes, and Ramsey have edited it and written for it regularly. With its distinguished new team of editors, the journal seems well-placed to continue this great tradition. "
Avinash Dixit, University of Princeton, USA