Quarterly Journal of Economics

Infobox Journal


discipline = Economics
abbreviation = QJE
publisher = MIT Press
country = USA
frequency = Quarterly
history = 1886 - present
openaccess =
website = http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/qjec
ISSN = 0033-5533

The "Quarterly Journal of Economics", or QJE, is an economics journal published by the MIT Press and edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics. Its current editors are Robert J. Barro, Edward L. Glaeser and Lawrence F. Katz. The QJE is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language, and covers all aspects of the field—from the journal's traditional emphasis on microtheory, to both empirical and theoretical macroeconomics.

Some of the most influential and well-read papers in economics have been published in the QJE, including:
* "Distribution as Determined by a Law of Rent" (1891), by John B. Clark
* "A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth" (1956), by Robert Solow
* "" (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" (1980), by Robert Barro and Gary Becker
* "Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting" (1997), by David Laibson

External links

* [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/qjec Official homepage]