Journal of Political Economy

Journal of Political Economy  
Discipline Economics
Language English
Edited by Harald Uhlig
Publication details
Publication history
 1892–present
Publisher
University of Chicago Press (United States)
Frequency Bimonthly
5.247
Standard abbreviations
J. Political Econ.
Indexing
CODEN JLPEAR
ISSN 0022-3808 (print)
1537-534X (web)
LCCN 08001721
JSTOR 00223808
OCLC no. 300934604
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The Journal of Political Economy is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press. It covers both theoretical and empirical economics. It was established in 1892 by James Laurence Laughlin.[1]

Its current editor-in-chief is Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 5.247, ranking it 18th out of 353 journals in the category "Economics".[2]

Notable papers

Among the most influential papers that appeared in the Journal of Political Economy are[3]:

... stated Hotelling's rule, laid foundations to non-renewable resource economics.[4]
... suggested non-political solutions to the free rider problem in local governance.
... first to apply econometric methods to a historic question, which triggered the development of Cliometrics.[5]
... highly influential for introducing the Black–Scholes model for option pricing.[6]
... re-introduced the Ricardian equivalence to macroeconomics, pointing out flaws in Keynesian theory.[7]
... influential new classical critique of Keynesian macroeconomic modelling.[8]
... developed a standard model of bank runs known as the Diamond–Dybvig model.
... the second of two papers in which Romer laid foundations to the endogenous growth theory.[9]
... revived the field of economic geography, introducing the core–periphery model.[10][11]
... the canonical New Keynesian macroeconomic model; basis for the later Smets–Wouters model that has become the standard at central banks.

References

  1. ↑ Ross B. Emmett (ed.), The Chicago Tradition in Economics 1892-1945, Taylor & Francis, 2002, p. xix.
  2. ↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Economics". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2018.
  3. ↑ Amiguet, Lluis; Gil-Lafuente, Anna M.; Kydland, Finn E.; Merigo, Jose M. (2017). "One Hundred Twenty-Five Years of the Journal of Political Economy: A Bibliometric Overview". Journal of Political Economy. 125. ISSN 1537-534X.
  4. ↑ Devarajan, Shantayanan; Fisher, Anthony C. (1981). "Hotelling's 'Economics of Exhaustible Resources': Fifty Years Later". Journal of Economic Literature. 19 (1): 65–73. JSTOR 2724235.
  5. ↑ Fogel, Robert William; Engerman, Stanley L. (1989). "Slavery and the Cliometric Revolution". Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-31218-6.
  6. ↑ Read, Colin (2012). The Rise of the Quants: Marschak, Sharpe, Black, Scholes and Merton. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230274174.
  7. ↑ White, Lawrence H. (2012). "From Pleasant Deficit Spending to Unpleasant Sovereign Debt Crisis". The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years. Cambridge University Press. pp. 382–411. ISBN 9781107012424.
  8. ↑ Thomas, R. L. (1993). Introductory Econometrics: Theory and Applications (2nd ed.). Harlow: Longman. p. 420. ISBN 0-582-07378-2.
  9. ↑ Romer, David (2011). Advanced Macroeconomics (Fourth ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780073511375.
  10. ↑ Krugman, P. (1998). "What's New About the New Economic Geography?". Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 14 (2): 7–17. doi:10.1093/oxrep/14.2.7.
  11. ↑ Fujita, M.; Thisse, J.-F. (2002). "Industrial agglomeration under monopolistic competition". Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location and Regional Growth. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521805244.


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