The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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.

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Discipline	Economics
Language	English
Edited by	Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer, Stefanie Stantcheva
Publication details
History	1886–present
Publisher	Oxford University Press for Harvard University Department of Economics
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	5.920 (2011)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Q. J. Econ.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0033-5533 (print) 1531-4650 (web)
JSTOR	00335533
OCLC no.	1763227
Links
Journal homepage Online access

History

It is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language,^[1] and second-oldest in any language after the Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft [de]. 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
Edward H. Chamberlin	1948-1957
Arthur Smithies	1958-1965
Gottfried Haberler	1966-1970
Richard A. Musgrave	1971-1975
Robert Dorfman	1976-1984
Jerry Green	1978-1980
Olivier J. Blanchard	1980-1998
David Hartman	1980-1984
Joseph P. Kalt	1980-1984
Malcolm Gillis	1980-1980
Richard B. Freeman	1980-1980
Michael Roemer	1981-1984
David A. Wise	1982-1984
Lawrence H. Summers	1985-1990
Eric S. Maskin	1985-1989
Andrei Shleifer	1989-1998, 2013-
Lawrence F. Katz	1991-
Edward L. Glaeser	1999-2008
Alberto Alesina	1999-2003
Robert J. Barro	2004-
Elhanan Helpman	2009-2014
Jeremy C. Stein	2012-2012
Pol Antràs	2015-2021
Stefanie Stantcheva	2020-
Nathan Nunn	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