The ''Journal of Monetary Economics'' is a
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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covering research on
macroeconomics
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and
monetary economics
Monetary economics is the branch of economics that studies the different competing theories of money: it provides a framework for analyzing money and considers its functions (such as medium of exchange, store of value and unit of account), and it ...
. It is published by
Elsevier
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and was established in October 1973 by
Karl Brunner and
Charles I. Plosser. Beginning in 2002, it was merged with the ''Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy''. The latter series was established in 1976 and had been published independently, originally by the North-Holland Publishing Company, now an
imprint
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of Elsevier.
According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2021
impact factor
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of 4.63.
Since 2022, its editors are
Boragan Aruoba and
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
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Gorodnichenko is also a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, a faculty research associate at the Nati ...
. It is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious academic journals in economics and was ranked as top 10 among all economics journals in 2008.
See also
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List of economics journals
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Popular magazines or other publications related to economics, finance, or business are not listed.
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