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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