JEL classification
The JEL classification is a classification system from economics . The JEL classifications are used to classify technical papers with a three-digit, alpha-numeric identifier. It was created by the American Economic Association as a classification system for the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), but then became the standard across the discipline.
Typically, authors of scientific articles write the JEL IDs on the title page under the abstract , making them part of the paratext .
Main categories
The JEL classification consists of 20 main categories, each divided into several sub-categories:
- JEL: A - General Economics and Didactics of Economics
- JEL: B - History of dogmas and methodology in economics and heterodox approaches
- JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
- JEL: D - microeconomics
- JEL: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, Monetary and Currency Theory
- JEL: F - Foreign Trade
- JEL: G - finance
- JEL: H - Economics of the public sector , public economics
- JEL: I - health , education , social
- JEL: J - Labor Economics, Population Economics
- JEL: K - Law and Economics
- JEL: L - industrial economics
- JEL: M - Business Administration ; Marketing; Accounting; human Resource
- JEL: N - economic history
- JEL: O - Economic development, innovation, technical change, economic growth
- JEL: P - economic systems
- JEL: Q - Agriculture , Natural Resource Economics , Environmental Economics
- JEL: R - Urban and Regional Economics
- JEL: Y - Misc
- JEL: Z - Other specialties
Example of a sub-category
D8 - information, knowledge and uncertainty
- D80 - Information, knowledge and uncertainty: general
- D81 - Decision criteria for risk and uncertainty
- D82 - Asymmetrical and private information; Mechanism Design Theory, Mechanism Design
- D83 - Search (addiction theory); Learn; Information and knowledge; Communication; Believe; Ignorance
- D84 - expectations; speculation
- D85 - Networking and Analysis: Theory
- D86 - Contract Economics: Theory
- D87 - Neuroeconomics
- D89 - Information, knowledge and uncertainty: other
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ JEL Classification Codes Guide. aeaweb.org, accessed October 21, 2015 .