Journal of Monetary Economics
The Journal of Monetary Economics ( JME ) is an economics journal that deals with monetary theory and is published by Elsevier with eight issues per year in English. The Journal of Monetary Economics contain in the January and July issues, the Carnegie - Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy as a side dish.
History
The Journal of Monetary Economics was founded in October 1973 by Karl Brunner and Charles Plosser and first released in 1975 with four issues per year by the Dutch publishing North - Holland Publishing Co.. Background for the establishment of the Journal of Monetary Economics was the increased interest in the economics experts on monetary analysis and on the operation and structure of financial economic institutions. Research on these topics has been named by Brunner as the main reason for the creation of a new, specialized in monetary theory problems journal to provide a platform. In the years after 1975, the edition number was initially reduced to three per band in 1981 and the number of volumes per year doubled, before finally in 2002 the number of volumes was halved, the number was increased at the same time spending eight per year.
To the editors of the Journal of Monetary Economics from famous economists such as Robert E. Lucas, Allan Meltzer, James Tobin and Stanley Fischer.
Content
The Journal of Monetary Economics publishes important research contributions to a wide range of topics of empirical, methodological and theoretical macroeconomics. Currently, this includes the asset valuation; Banking, credit and financial markets; Behavioral macroeconomics; Business cycle analysis; Consumption, labor supply and savings; dynamic equilibrium; Economic growth and development economics; Expectation formation, information and aggregate economic behavior; Fiscal shocks and fiscal policy; Forecast, Macroeconometrics and Time Series Analysis; International trade, exchange rates and open economy macroeconomics; Labor markets; macroeconomic data and history; Monetary policy; Monetary theory; Money demand and money supply; Productivity measurement and theory; Pricing in product and labor markets and real investment.
Editing
Current editor in chief of the Journal of Monetary Economics, Robert G. King ( Boston University ), supported by Urban J. Jermann and Ricardo Reis as co- editors. The editors include in addition to four senior associate editor, as well as 20 associate editor.
Reception
In a study of Kalaitzidakis et al. (2003) documented the Journal of Monetary Economics 10th place out of 159 evaluated publications, but could be in an updated study of Kalaitzidakis et al. (2011) increase at the position 6 of 209 compared publications. In economics publication ranking of the Tinbergen Institute at the University of Amsterdam is performed, the Journal of Monetary Economics in category A ("very good general economics journals and top journals in their field "). The journal has an impact factor of 1.892 (as of 2011 ).