Journals.  Public Economics

 

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Annual Pages - Yearly average of field-dedicated pages published in the journal in 1993-2003.
Share in Journal - Percentage of journal's field-dedicated pages in all pages published by the journal in 1993-2003.
Equiv Papers - Impact-adjusted, field-dedicated papers appearing in the journal in 1993-2003 (see ranking methodology for details).

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6. Subdiscipline Public Economics 
6.1.
Social Choice Theory / Allocative Efficiency / Public Goods
6.2.
Political Economy
6.3.
Theory of Taxation
6.4.
Law & Economics

 

6. Subdiscipline Public Economics

Journal Annual Pages Share in Journal Equiv
Papers
Journal of Public Economics 618.8 35.8 95.5
Journal of Economic Theory 282.9 13.3 65.8
Public Choice 869.2 57.1 52.3
American Economic Review 173.7 9.5 42.2
Social Choice and Welfare 414.4 73.3 35.9
Journal of Political Economy 156.7 11.6 35.0
Quarterly Journal of Economics 125.9 9.4 31.1
European Economic Review 137.5 8.1 23.5
Games and Economic Behavior 118.5 9.3 21.3
Economic Theory 121.9 9.7 20.2
Econometrica 70.9 5.1 19.2
National Tax Journal 353.3 47.5 18.8
Review of Economic Studies 67.2 8.2 15.3
Economic Journal 92.7 6.3 14.8
Economics Letters 100.5 7.2 14.2
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 219.0 43.0 11.9
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 120.1 8.8 11.5
Journal of Law and Economics 186.2 27.9 11.1
International Economic Review 58.8 5.4 10.3
Journal of Mathematical Economics 91.0 10.6 9.2
Journal of Economic Perspectives 56.0 6.7 9.0
Scandinavian Journal of Economics 74.6 12.1 8.1
Rand Journal of Economics 56.3 7.4 7.8
Economic Inquiry 87.3 12.1 7.7
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 57.6 7.0 6.8
Journal of Monetary Economics 35.8 3.5 5.9
Canadian Journal of Economics 79.0 7.0 5.8
Theory and Decision 81.0 15.9 5.3
Journal of Economic Literature 30.7 5.2 5.1
Review of Economics and Statistics 28.1 3.8 5.0
Southern Economic Journal 94.1 9.8 5.0

 

6.1. Social Choice Theory / Allocative Efficiency / Public Goods

Journal Annual Pages Share in Journal Equiv
Papers
Journal of Economic Theory 211.2 10.0 49.1
Journal of Public Economics 185.5 10.7 28.9
Social Choice and Welfare 292.0 51.6 26.0
Games and Economic Behavior 79.9 6.3 15.9
Economic Theory 94.6 7.6 15.6
American Economic Review 58.2 3.2 13.1
Econometrica 48.9 3.5 12.5
Journal of Political Economy 37.0 2.7 8.0
Review of Economic Studies 33.5 4.1 7.9
Economics Letters 51.9 3.7 7.9
Journal of Mathematical Economics 77.3 9.0 7.4
Quarterly Journal of Economics 26.1 2.0 6.8
European Economic Review 41.1 2.4 6.3
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 67.5 4.9 6.2
Public Choice 114.3 7.5 6.2
Economic Journal 39.0 2.7 5.9
International Economic Review 31.0 2.9 5.3
Theory and Decision 56.8 11.2 3.5

 

6.2. Political Economy

Journal Annual Pages Share in Journal Equiv
Papers
Public Choice 692.7 45.5 41.9
American Economic Review 52.7 2.9 13.6
Quarterly Journal of Economics 55.6 4.2 13.0
Journal of Political Economy 53.9 4.0 12.8
Journal of Economic Theory 54.4 2.6 12.8
Journal of Public Economics 85.7 5.0 12.4
European Economic Review 58.1 3.4 10.5
Social Choice and Welfare 113.5 20.1 9.0
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 104.1 20.4 5.4
Review of Economic Studies 20.7 2.5 4.7
Games and Economic Behavior 33.8 2.7 4.4
Econometrica 13.6 1.0 4.1
Economic Theory 23.2 1.9 3.7

 

6.3 Theory of Taxation

Journal Annual Pages Share in Journal Equiv
Papers
Journal of Public Economics 324.9 18.8 50.4
National Tax Journal 315.0 42.3 16.8
American Economic Review 39.3 2.2 10.5
Journal of Political Economy 31.3 2.3 6.5
Economic Journal 27.1 1.8 4.6
European Economic Review 24.8 1.5 4.4
Journal of Monetary Economics 23.7 2.3 4.3
Journal of Economic Theory 17.2 0.8 4.0
Scandinavian Journal of Economics 31.7 5.1 3.8
Economics Letters 24.1 1.7 3.3
International Economic Review 17.3 1.6 3.2
Canadian Journal of Economics 39.3 3.5 3.0

 

6.4 Law & Economics

Journal Annual Pages Share in Journal Equiv
Papers
Journal of Law and Economics 161.3 24.2 9.2
Quarterly Journal of Economics 31.8 2.4 8.4
Journal of Political Economy 34.4 2.5 7.6
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 102.5 20.1 5.9
American Economic Review 23.5 1.3 4.9
Rand Journal of Economics 32.5 4.2 4.3
Journal of Public Economics 22.7 1.3 3.8
Journal of Economic Perspectives 18.7 2.2 3.2

 

JEL Descriptors:

6.1 D60 - Welfare Economics -- D61 - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis -- D62 - Externalities -- D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement -- D64 - Altruism -- D69 - Other -- D70 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making -- D71 - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees -- D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking,Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior -- D73 - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations -- D74 - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances -- D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy-Making and Implementation -- D79 - Other -- H00 - Public Economics: General -- H40 - Publicly Provided Goods -- H41 - Public Goods -- H42 - Publicly Provided Private Goods -- H43 - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate -- H49 - Other

6.2 D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking,Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior -- D73 - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations -- D74 - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances -- D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy-Making and Implementation -- D79 - Other -- H10 - Structure and Scope of Government -- H11 - Structure and Scope of Government -- H19 - Other

6.3 H20 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue -- H21 - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation -- H22 - Incidence -- H23 - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies -- H24 - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies -- H25 - Business Taxes and Subsidies -- H26 - Tax Evasion -- H29 - Other -- H30 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents -- H31 - Household -- H32 - Firm -- H39 - Other

6.4 K00 - Law and Economics: General -- K10 - Basic Areas of Law K11 - Property Law -- K12 - Contract Law -- K13 - Tort Law and Product Liability -- K14 - Criminal Law -- K19 - Other -- K20 - Regulation and Business Law -- K21 - Antitrust Law -- K22 - Corporation and Securities Law -- K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law -- K29 - Other -- K30 - Other Substantive Areas of Law -- K31 - Labor Law -- K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law -- K33 - International Law -- K34 - Tax Law -- K39 - Other -- K40 - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior -- K41 - Litigation Process -- K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law -- K49 - Other