About the Journal

Aims

Journal of Economy is a peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes qualitative, quantitative and combined - method research papers that include original research, short communication and reviews in the field of development economies and macroeconomics.  The journal considers papers that have the scope to address present issues in society while advancing the frontiers of knowledge.

Scope

Journal of Economy publishes across all relevant fields of research, including but not restricted to:

  • Monetary and financial economics
    • monetary theory and policy; monetary systems; inflation; interest rates; central banks and their policies; currencies; financial markets and their functioning; financial intermediation; payment systems; financial crises; role of finance in economic development.
  • International trade regional economics
    • trade theory and policy; regional economic integration; international factor movement; migration; exchange rate determination; exchange rate systems; International economic arrangements; urban and rural economics; regional economic activity.
  • Macroeconomic economic theory and policy
    • macroeconomic modelling; fiscal and other fields of economic policies; institutions and the macroeconomy; consumption; saving; investment; unemployment; national accounting; income distribution; production; business cycle fluctuations; macroeconomic forecasting.
  • Economic development
    • development policy; formal and informal economy; role of international organizations; foreign aid; industrialization; institutions and development; country studies; urban, rural, and regional studies; industrial policy; welfare; poverty; demographics.
  • Growth and natural resources
    • growth models; empirical growth studies; productivity; technological change; intellectual property rights; environment; resource policies; renewable resources; energy; primary markets; agriculture; institutions and growth; climate change.
  • Health economics
    • health care markets; health policy; regulation in health markets; health insurance; public health systems; health behaviour; pandemics; health and economic development; health and productivity; health and inequality.
  • Labour and education economics
    • labour markets; labour force; employment; human capital labour productivity; wages; retirement policies; education policies and systems; education and inequality; education and economic development; skills and return on education.

Get Published with Open Access! We strongly believe every research needs to be discoverable, disseminated widely and freely accessible to any one regardless of location and affiliation. This vision we attain through the Open Access publishing medium. Scholar J employs the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license to all published work under which, authors agree to make articles legally available for reuse, without permission or fees, for virtually any purpose and as such, anyone may copy, distribute, or reuse these articles, as long as the author and original source are properly cited.

Article Processing Charges (APC)

Journal of Economy is an Open Access Journal and as such charges APC. The associated APC for each accepted article is USD 500.

Indexing and Archiving

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