Journal of Public Economics

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Journal of Public Economics

description Scientific journal
language English
publishing company Elsevier
First edition 1972
Frequency of publication per month
Editor-in-chief W. Kopczuk and Erzo FP Luttmer
Web link journals.elsevier.com
Article archive sciencedirect.com
ISSN 0047-2727

The Journal of Public Economics is an economics journal that is published monthly by Verlag Elsevier and is a leader in the field of public economics. The current joint chief editors-in-chief of the magazine are W. Kopczuk and Erzo FP Luttmer .

Content

The aim of the Journal of Public Economics is to promote original scientific contributions on problems in public economics, with a focus on the application of modern economic theory and methods of quantitative analysis. The journal also provides a platform for discussing political measures that are relevant to an international readership. While the topics of optimal taxation and tax reform theory were particularly prominent in the Journal of Public Economics in the 1970s, this changed to the 1980s in favor of dealing with problems of asymmetrical information distribution . In the 1990s, the substantive focus of the magazine shifted again to issues like education economics , environmental economics , political economy and development economics . There was also a trend towards a higher proportion of empirical articles, growing from around 25% in the 1980s to over 40% in the 1990s.

history

The Journal of Public Economics was created in 1972 as a result of an initiative of the North-Holland Publishing Company , because the publisher wanted to take account of the further development of public economics from a sub-field of public finance and welfare economics to an independent field of economics . Tony Atkinson was hired as the magazine's first editor-in-chief , supported by Martin Feldstein , Leif Johansson and Joseph Stiglitz as co-editors. The first home of the Journal of Public Economics was the University of Essex , later the University College London , from 1980 the London School of Economics and since 1998 Cambridge, MA . In 1981 the editor-in-chief was expanded to include Nicholas Stern . Later editors-in-chief of the Journal of Public Economics include James Poterba , Roger Gordon and Raj Chetty .

While around 58% of the articles came from the United States , 33% from Europe ( UK : 18%) and 10% from Canada in the early 1980s , this changed over the next two decades: at the beginning of the 21st century, the proportion was more European Contributions increased to 57% (UK: 17%), while participation from the United States decreased (51%), while the shares of Canada and East Asia remained more or less constant. The Journal of Public Economics works closely with the International Seminar for Public Economics (ISPE) and the National Bureau of Economic Research ; Together these organizations organize conferences on economic issues, the results of which are published in special editions of the Journal of Public Economics.

reception

In a study by Kalaitzidakis et al. (2003) ranked 19th out of 159 publications evaluated by the Journal of Public Economics, but could not be found in an updated study by Kalaitzidakis et al. (2011) to 9th place out of 209 compared publications. In the economics publication ranking of the Tinbergen Institute at the University of Amsterdam , the Journal of Public Economics is listed in category A (“very good general economic journals and top journals in the respective subject”). Another study by the French economists Pierre-Phillippe Combes and Laurent Linnemer lists the journal with 14th place for economic journals in the second best category AA.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Journal of Monetary Economics Editorial Board. Retrieved January 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Atkinson, Tony (1993): The Journal of Public Economics at 21 years and 50 volumes: A personal view , in: Journal of Public Economics, Index to Volumes 1-50, p. 1.
  3. ↑ Gordon, Roger, James Poterba (2002): The Third Decade of the Journal of Public Economics , in: Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 86, p. 309.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: Der Link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 30 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / czx.jpkc.fudan.edu.cn  
  4. ^ Atkinson, Tony (1993), ibid, p. 1.
  5. ↑ Gordon, Roger, James Poterba (2002): ibid, p. 307.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 30 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / czx.jpkc.fudan.edu.cn  
  6. ^ Atkinson, Tony (1993), ibid, p. 4.
  7. ↑ Kalaitzidakis, Pantelis, Theofanis P. Mamuneas, Thanasis Stengos (2003): Rankings of Academic Journals and Institutions in Economics , Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 1346-1366. (PDF; 177 kB)
  8. ↑ Kalaitzidakis, Pantelis, Theofanis P. Mamuneas, Thanasis Stengos (2011): An updated ranking of academic journals in economics , Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 1525-1538. (PDF; 337 kB)
  9. ^ Journal ranking of the Tinbergen Institute (English) ( Memento from February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Combes, Pierre-Philippe and Laurent Linnemer, Inferring Missing Citations: A Quantitative Multi-Criteria Ranking of all Journals in Economics . In: GREQAM Document de Travail . No. 2010-28 , 2010, pp. 26-30 (English).

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