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A new editorial structure for The Econometrics Journal has been introduced (May 2007).
The Editors' annual report for 2006 for The Econometrics Journal is now available.
CD Rom
The Economic Journal is now available to members of the
Royal Economic Society on CD.
The latest edition presents the complete 2004 volume in a user-friendly
format. In addition to articles, features, conference papers and
extensive book reviews, this special edition also includes supplementary
datasets and technical appendices.
To order your copy of the 2004 volume on CD, please order
online or complete
the order form and send it together with your
payment to: Journals Customer Services, Blackwell
Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ,
UK.
Publications
The standing of the Economic Journal is clearly rising.
It ranked sixth among 42 leading economics journals
in the article by Pieters and Baumgartner in the June
2002 Journal of Economic Literature (based on citations,
deducting self-citations). The Features issues of the
EJ have covered a wide range of major policy-related
topics - forthcoming numbers include several topics
related to developing countries: 'Foreign Aid', 'Trade
Liberalization and Economic Performance in Developing
Countries', and 'Competition, Corporate Governance and
Selection in Emerging Markets'.
The Newsletter has introduced a new series of articles. Peter Howells,
the Editor, has commissioned contributions from practitioners in the private
and public sectors on the relevance to their work of particular aspects
of economic research. This series joins the regular 'letters' from the
US, France, Germany and now India. A substantial majority of the Society's
members are based outside the UK, and many members are not academics.
The Newsletter is an informative and lively means of communication across
these boundaries.
The media have given considerable attention to the Annual Conference
in recent years. This is in great part due to our media initiative. Romesh
Vaitilingam provides user-friendly material to the press, with intensive
coverage of Conference papers and regular press releases on Economic Journal
articles. The Society's media initiative was highly praised and recommended
as a model for other social sciences in the recent report of the Commission
on the Social Sciences. The Society's Council, in supporting the media
initiative so strongly, has reaffirmed our commitment to communicating
the results of economic research in forms that are accessible to non-specialists.
There is still a long way to go, however, to convince many critics that
the combination of theory and empirical work at the heart of modern economics
is not hopelessly abstract, that our models and analysis can both help
to explain the data and serve as reliable tools for policy-making.
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