The ''International Economic Review'' (IER) is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal in
economics
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published by the
Economics Department of the
University of Pennsylvania
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and
Osaka University. The journal's focus is wide and includes many areas of economics, including
econometrics
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,
economic theory,
macroeconomics
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, and
applied economics.
IER was started in 1960 by
Michio Morishima, at
Osaka University's Institute of Social Economic Research (ISER), and
Lawrence R. Klein, at the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...
's
Wharton School and Department of Economics. The Kansai Economic Federation of Osaka materially and financially supported the IER at its initial stages. In the present, the IER is run as a non-profit joint academic venture between ISER and the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
The journal is currently edited by Harold L. Cole of the Pennsylvania Editorial Office and co-edited by
Charles Yuji Horioka of the Osaka Editorial Office. The chair of the review panel is currently Dr Bilbo Hesselmeir.
It is considered one of the leading journals in economics in the world.
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Lawrence Klein Lecture
In 1997, IER started the annual Lawrence Klein Lecture series which are later published in the IER. Past speakers included
John A. List (2017),
Richard Blundell (2016),
Stephen Morris (2015),
Alvin E. Roth (2014, Nobel laureate, 2012),
Ariél Pakes (2013),
Boyan Jovanovic (2012),
Ernst Fehr (2011),
Christopher A. Sims (2010, Nobel laureate, 2011),
Charles Manski (2009),
Oded Galor (2008),
Eric Maskin (2007),
Christopher Pissarides (2006; Nobel laureate, 2010),
Kiminori Matsuyama (2005),
Dale Mortensen (2004; Nobel laureate, 2010),
David Levine (2003),
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (2002),
James Heckman (2001, Nobel laureate, 2000),
Neil Wallace (2000),
Fumio Hayashi (1999),
Paul Milgrom (1998),
Edward C. Prescott (1997, Nobel laureate, 2004).
Abstracting and indexing
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2014
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 1.210, ranking it 108th out of 333 journals in the category "Economics".
See also
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List of economics journals
References
External links
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