The Journal of Political Economy is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press. It covers both theoretical and empirical economics. It was established in 1892 and the editor-in-chief is Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 3.593, ranking it 11th out of 333 journals in the category "Economics".
Among the most influential papers that appeared in the Journal of Political Economy are:
"The Economics of Exhaustible Resources", by Harold Hotelling; Vol. 39, No. 2 (1931), pp. 137–175. JSTOR 1822328
"A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures", by Charles Tiebout; Vol. 64, No. 5 (1956), pp. 416–424. JSTOR 1826343
"The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South", by Alfred H. Conrad and John R. Meyer; Vol. 66, No. 2 (1958), pp. 95–130. JSTOR 1827270
"The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities", by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes; Vol. 81, No. 3 (1973), pp. 637–654. JSTOR 1831029
"Are Government Bonds Net Wealth?", by Robert Barro; Vol. 82, No. 6 (1974), pp. 1095–1117. JSTOR 1830663
"Rules Rather than Discretion: The Inconsistency of Optimal Plans", by Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott; Vol. 85, No. 3 (1977), pp. 473–492. JSTOR 1830193
"Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity", by Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig; Vol. 91, No. 3 (1983), pp. 401–419. JSTOR 1837095
"Endogenous Technological Change", by Paul M. Romer; Vol. 98, No. 5, (1990) pp. S71–S102. JSTOR 2937632
"Increasing Returns and Economic Geography", by Paul Krugman; Vol. 99, No. 3 (1991), pp. 483–499. JSTOR 2937739
"Nominal Rigidities and the Dynamic Effects of a Shock to Monetary Policy", by Lawrence J. Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum, and Charles L. Evans; Vol. 113, No. 1 (February 2005), pp. 1–45 JSTOR 426038
