''Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics'' is a bimonthly

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published by

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on behalf of the Department of Economics,

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. The journal was established in 1939 as the ''Bulletin of the Oxford University Institute of Economics and Statistics'' and became the ''Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics'' in 1973. The journal publishes articles on

applied economics Applied economics is the study as regards the application of economic theory and econometrics in specific settings. As one of the two sets of fields of economics (the other set being the ''core''), it is typically characterized by the application ...

with emphasis placed on the practical importance, theoretical interest and policy-relevance of their results. General topics include

macroeconomics Macroeconomics (from the Greek prefix ''makro-'' meaning "large" + ''economics'') is a branch of economics dealing with performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole. For example, using interest rates, taxes, and ...

microeconomics Microeconomics is a branch of mainstream economics that studies the behavior of individuals and firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources and the interactions among these individuals and firms. Microeconomics fo ...

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and

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 1.791, ranking it 33rd out of 52 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods", 53rd out of 125 journals in the category "Statistics & Probability" and 204th out of 378 journals in the category "Economics".

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