The RAND Journal of Economics

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The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE)

description Scientific journal
language English
publishing company Wiley-Blackwell
First edition 1970
Frequency of publication quarterly
Editor-in-chief James Hosek
editor RAND Corporation
Web link rje.org
Article archive jstor.org
ISSN

The RAND Journal of Economics ( RJE ) - formerly The Bell Journal of Economics - is an economics journal published by the RAND Corporation in collaboration with the publisher Wiley-Blackwell .

history

The Bell Journal of Economics , the forerunner of the RAND Journal of Economics , was first published in 1970 with two issues per year. In 1984 the journal was renamed The RAND Journal of Economics . Since 2006 the magazine has been published by the RAND Corporation in collaboration with the publisher Wiley-Blackwell .

Content

The aim of the RAND Journal of Economics is to support and encourage research on the behavior of regulated industries, the economic analysis of organizations, and more general applied microeconomics . Both theoretical and empirical manuscripts in the field of economic analysis of law are welcomed.

editorial staff

The current editor-in-chief of the Rand Journal of Economics is James Hosek , supported by seven editors ( Mark Armstrong , Benjamin E. Hermalin , David Martimort , Aviv Nevo , Marc Rysman , Kathryn E. Spier , Chad Syverson ) and 22 associate editors .

reception

In a study by Kalaitzidakis et al. (2003) ranked 16th out of 159 evaluated publications in the RAND Journal of Economics , but rose in an updated study by Kalaitzidakis et al. (2011) ranked 17th out of 209 publications compared. In the economics publication ranking of the Tinbergen Institute at the University of Amsterdam , the RAND Journal of 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 13th place in economic journals in the second best category AA.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Editorial Board of the RAND Journal of Economics. Retrieved September 23, 2015 .
  2. Contents and objectives of the Rand Journal of Economics (English)
  3. 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 file; 172 kB)
  4. 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 file; 329 kB)
  5. Magazine ranking of the Tinbergen Institute (English) ( Memento from February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. 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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