Journal of Political Economy#JPE Micro and JPE Macro

In 2023, University of Chicago Press announced the establishment of Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics (JPE Micro) and Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics (JPE Macro), two new journals that are vertically integrated with the Journal of Political Economy.

The journal is abstracted and indexed in EBSCO, ProQuest, EconLit,{{cite web |title=Journals Indexed |url=https://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/journal_list.php |website=EconLit |publisher=American Economic Association |access-date=2022-02-25}} Research Papers in Economics, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 9.103, ranking it 4/376 journals in the category "Economics".{{cite book |year=2021 |chapter=Journals Ranked by Impact: Economics |title=2020 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Thomson Reuters |edition=Social Sciences |series=Web of Science |title-link=Journal Citation Reports }}

The journal is department-owned University of Chicago journal.{{Cite web|last=Economics|last2=Science|date=2020-06-10|title=Should departments own and control journals?|url=https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/06/should-departments-own-and-control-journals.html|access-date=2020-06-11|website=Marginal REVOLUTION|language=en-US}}

Among the most influential papers that appeared in the Journal of Political Economy are:{{Cite journal |author-last1=Amiguet |author-first1=Lluis |author-last2=Gil-Lafuente |author-first2=Anna M. |author-last3=Kydland |author-first3=Finn E. |author-last4=Merigo |author-first4=Jose M. |date=2017|title=One Hundred Twenty-Five Years of the Journal of Political Economy: A Bibliometric Overview |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jpe/125-5 |journal=Journal of Political Economy | volume=125 |issn=1537-534X}}

• "The Economics of Exhaustible Resources", by Harold Hotelling; Vol. 39, No. 2 (1931), pp. 137–175. {{JSTOR|1822328}}

:: ... stated Hotelling's rule, laid foundations to non-renewable resource economics.{{cite journal |title=Hotelling's 'Economics of Exhaustible Resources': Fifty Years Later |first=Shantayanan |last=Devarajan |first2=Anthony C. |last2=Fisher |journal=Journal of Economic Literature |volume=19 |issue=1 |year=1981 |pages=65–73 |jstor=2724235}}

• "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}}

:: ... first to apply econometric methods to a historic question, which triggered the development of Cliometrics.{{cite book |last=Fogel |first=Robert William |last2=Engerman |first2=Stanley L. |year=1989 |chapter=Slavery and the Cliometric Revolution |title=Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery |location=New York |publisher=W. W. Norton |isbn=978-0-393-31218-8 |chapter-url-access=registration |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/timeoncross00robe}}

• "The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities", by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes; Vol. 81, No. 3 (1973), pp. 637–654. {{JSTOR|1831029}}

:: ... highly influential for introducing the Black–Scholes model for option pricing.{{cite book |last=Read |first=Colin |year=2012 |title=The Rise of the Quants: Marschak, Sharpe, Black, Scholes and Merton |location=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=9780230274174}}

• "Are Government Bonds Net Wealth?", by Robert Barro; Vol. 82, No. 6 (1974), pp. 1095–1117. {{JSTOR|1830663}}

:: ... re-introduced the Ricardian equivalence to macroeconomics, pointing out flaws in Keynesian theory.{{cite book |last=Hoover |first=Kevin D. |title=The New Classical Macroeconomics |location=Oxford |publisher=Basil Blackwell |year=1988 |isbn=978-0-631-17263-5 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newclassicalmacr0000hoov/page/140 140–149] |url=https://archive.org/details/newclassicalmacr0000hoov/page/140 }}{{cite book |last=White |first=Lawrence H. |year=2012 |chapter=From Pleasant Deficit Spending to Unpleasant Sovereign Debt Crisis |title=The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=382–411 |isbn=9781107012424}}

• "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}}

:: ... influential new classical critique of Keynesian macroeconomic modelling.{{cite book |last=Thomas |first=R. L. |title=Introductory Econometrics: Theory and Applications |location=Harlow |publisher=Longman |year=1993 |edition=2nd |isbn=978-0-582-07378-4 |page=420}}

• "Endogenous Technological Change", by Paul M. Romer; Vol. 98, No. 5, (1990) pp. S71–S102. {{JSTOR|2937632}}

:: ... the second of two papers in which Romer laid foundations to the endogenous growth theory.{{cite book |last=Romer |first=David |year=2011 |title=Advanced Macroeconomics |edition=Fourth |location=New York |publisher=McGraw-Hill |isbn=9780073511375}}

• "Increasing Returns and Economic Geography", by Paul Krugman; Vol. 99, No. 3 (1991), pp. 483–499. {{JSTOR|2937739}}

:: ... revived the field of economic geography, introducing the core–periphery model.{{cite book |last=Fujita |first=M. |first2=J.-F. |last2=Thisse |year=2002 |chapter=Industrial agglomeration under monopolistic competition |title=Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location and Regional Growth |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0521805247}}

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