''The Quarterly Journal of Economics'' is a peer-reviewed

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published by the

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for the

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Department of Economics. Its current

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are Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer, and Stefanie Stantcheva.

History

It is the oldest professional journal of

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in the English language, and covers all aspects of the field—from the journal's traditional emphasis on micro-theory to both empirical and theoretical macroeconomics.

Reception

According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2015

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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,

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, the Journal of Political Economy, and the

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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. ClarkClark 1891: . * "The Positive Theory of Capital and Its Critics" (1895), by

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Eugen Ritter von Böhm-Bawerk (; born Eugen Böhm, 12 February 185127 August 1914) was an Austrian economist who made important contributions to the development of the Austrian School of Economics and neoclassical economics. He served intermittent ...

* " Petty's Place in the History of Economic Theory" (1900), by

Charles Henry Hull Charles Henry Hull (September 29, 1864 – July 15, 1936) was an American economist and historian. He worked at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York. In 1900, he was appointed professor of American History. In 1899, he published '' The Econom ...

* "Fallacies in the Interpretation of Social Cost" (1924), by Frank H. Knight * "The General Theory of Employment" (1937), by

John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, ( ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originally trained in ...

(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 Robert Merton Solow, GCIH (; born August 23, 1924) is an American economist whose work on the theory of economic growth culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him. He is currently Emeritus Institute Professor of Economics at the ...

* " 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 Robert Joseph Barro (born September 28, 1944) is an American macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Barro is considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomics, along with Robert Lucas, J ...

and

Gary Becker Gary Stanley Becker (; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of ...

* "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 David Hibbard Romer (born March 13, 1958) is an American economist, the Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of a standard textbook in graduate macroeconomics as well as many influ ...

, 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 Richard Harris Clarida (born May 18, 1957) is an American economist who served as the 21st Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2018 to 2022. Clarida resigned his post on January 14th 2022 to return from public service leave to teach at Columbi ...

Jordi Galí Jordi Galí (born January 4, 1961) is a Spanish macroeconomist who is regarded as one of the main figures in New Keynesian macroeconomics today. He is currently the director of the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI, the Center fo ...

, and Mark Gertler * "Information Technology, Workplace Organization, and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-Level Evidence" (2002) by Timothy F. Bresnahan,

Erik Brynjolfsson Erik Brynjolfsson (born 1962) is an American academic, author and inventor. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University where he directs thDigital Economy Labat the Stanford Institute for Human-Cen ...

and Lorin M. Hitt

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