Aims & Scope
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics publishes significant research and scholarship in both theoretical and applied macroeconomics. The journal's mandate is to assemble papers from the broad research spectrum covered by modern macroeconomics. The range of topics includes business cycle research, economic growth, and monetary economics, as well as topics drawn from the substantial areas of overlap between macroeconomics and international economics, labor economics, finance, development economics, political economy, public economics, and econometric theory.
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 77,000 scholars receive email notification of new articles in The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, and over 350 institutions subscribe, including all of the top 20.
- Widely indexed in EconLit, JEL, IBSS, RePEc, and Scopus. The full text is crawled and indexed by search engines like Google.
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— Michael Woodford, Professor of Economics and Banking, Princeton University, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
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— Ian King, Associate Professor, University of Auckland, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
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— William Easterly, World Bank, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
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