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.

It is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language, 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.

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". 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.

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
• "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

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