The Quarterly Journal of Economics

The Quarterly Journal of Economics is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language. Edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics, it covers all aspects of the field.

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In an effort to promote consistent standards and requirements among general-interest journals in the field of economics the Quarterly Journal of Economics has adopted a new data availability policy. To read the full policy, click here. To navigate to the QJE’s Dataverse page, please click here.

The 2015 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded on the 12th of October to Angus Deaton. Click here to read a collection of Professor Deaton’s articles from across OUP’s economics journals.

The Quarterly Journal of Economics is one of the top-ranked journals in Economics according to the 2015 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2016). Click here to read a collection of highly cited articles.

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