Aims & Scope
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy welcomes submissions that employ microeconomics to analyze issues in business, consumer behavior, and public policy. We aim to be an international forum for scholarship, whether the scholarship considers an issue that is general or that pertains to a particular country or region, but authors should bear in mind that our readers come from around the world. Potential issues of interest include: the interaction of firms, the functioning of markets, the effects of domestic and international policy, and the design of organizations and institutions. Articles can be in corporate finance, industrial organization, international trade, labor economics, public finance, or other related fields including economics of cities, education, health, law, or the environment.
Authors should bring to their analysis whatever microeconomic theoretic tools are helpful. We publish both empirical work and applied theory (though not more abstract forms of applied theory). Our ambition for this journal is to publish papers that have practical implications for public policy, business policy, or individual decision making. Macroeconomic submissions will be transferred for consideration to the B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics. Submissions that are more abstract will be transferred to the B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics.
As one of the B.E. family of journals, we are dedicated to revolutionizing the academic publishing process and ameliorating the scholarly communications crisis.
Benefits for authors include:
- Fast publication Articles are guaranteed to receive a decision within 10 weeks, thanks to our Authors & Reviewers' Bank, online submission, web-based software that streamlines the editorial process, and dedication of our editors. The median decision time is even less: 52 days.
- Author as typesetter You will never again scour copyedited manuscripts or galleys in search of errors introduced by copyeditors and typesetters. What you write is exactly what your readers will see.
- Quality Rating Authors no longer need to trade off submitting to a more prestigious journal at the cost of an increased chance of rejection. We simultaneously consider each article for four different tiers distinguished by breadth of appeal and overall quality.
- Authors & Reviewers' Bank Scholars enter a social contract to review other papers in a timely manner so their own papers are reviewed rapidly. Strong incentives for timely, quality reviews solve the free-rider problem.
- Top-caliber reviews Reviewers who write especially insightful reviews will be invited by editors to publish them as comments. Reviewers can send questions to authors by anonymous email, so reviewers are less likely to misunderstand authors, and authors are more likely to avoid confused writing.
- Widely disseminated Readers worldwide have access to your paper at their desktops. More than 80,000 scholars receive email notification of new articles in the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, and over 350 institutions subscribe, including all of the top 20.
- Widely indexed in EconLit, JEL, IBSS, PAIS, RePEc, and Scopus. The full text is crawled and indexed by search engines like Google.
"My authoring experience was probably the best to date in terms of speed and efficiency. The quality of the referees was also excellent, as good if not better than anything I've experienced (and that includes the AER, Rand, etcetera)."
- Mark J. McCabe, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
"The speed with which the process was completed is so much better than the standard for more established journals in economics. We can only hope you are successful in breaking the conventional delays that are so harmful to the professional development of young economists. You have demonstrated that quality peer review and editing can be done in economics in as timely a fashion as it is done in many other disciplines."
- Jack Ochs, Professor and Chair of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
Questions about submissions and journal content may be directed to the editors.