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| Economic Inquiry | |
|---|---|
| Title | Economic Inquiry |
| Discipline | Economics |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Country | United States |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Established | 1962 |
Economic Inquiry
Economic Inquiry is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing research in Economics with emphasis on empirical and theoretical studies that influence public debate in areas such as Monetary policy, Labor economics, Public choice, Industrial organization, and International trade. Founded in 1962, it has featured contributions from scholars affiliated with institutions like Harvard University, University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, London School of Economics, and Stanford University and has published work relevant to events including the Great Recession, the European debt crisis, and policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic.
Economic Inquiry publishes articles spanning microeconomic theory, applied econometrics, and policy-oriented analysis with readership among faculty at Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, and researchers at organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The journal emphasizes methodological rigor used in studies addressing topics tied to landmark episodes like the Oil crisis of 1973, the Latin American debt crisis, and reforms in nations such as Japan and Germany.
The journal traces its roots to editorial movements and disciplinary debates in the 20th century involving figures from University of Chicago and MIT, parallel to developments like the rise of Game Theory and formal Public Choice literature. Over decades the journal has responded to shifts inaugurated by work linked to scholars associated with Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences recipients at institutions such as University of Chicago and Harvard University, and to empirical revolutions arising from datasets housed at places like the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and projects tied to the Framingham Heart Study (as an example of longitudinal design influence).
Articles commonly apply techniques including structural modeling popularized in work from Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reduced-form identification strategies inspired by research at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Cowles Commission, and causal inference methods refined in contexts like Difference-in-differences applications to reforms in Chile and United Kingdom. Empirical pieces often use datasets maintained by U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Eurostat, and administrative sources used in studies about Social Security Administration programs. Theoretical contributions draw on frameworks from John von Neumann-influenced Game Theory and models associated with scholars linked to Princeton University and University of Chicago.
Economic Inquiry covers subfields such as Labor economics, Industrial organization, Public economics, International trade, Development economics, and Health economics. It publishes work addressing policy episodes like tax reforms exemplified by Tax Reform Act of 1986, deregulation episodes such as Airline Deregulation Act, and trade shifts following North American Free Trade Agreement. Studies also relate to monetary episodes like Volcker shock and inflation dynamics examined in contexts such as Germany (Weimar Republic) historically.
Research in the journal informs policy debates at institutions including the Federal Reserve System, the European Central Bank, and ministries in countries like China and India. Analyses have been cited in policy discussions about unemployment benefits in the United States, pension reforms in United Kingdom, health-care financing adjustments influenced by research on programs such as Medicare, and trade policy deliberations following events like U.S.–China trade war.
Critiques of the journal’s corpus echo broader debates in the discipline involving methodological disputes inspired by controversies around econometric techniques promoted in venues such as Journal of Political Economy and American Economic Review; debates include tensions between structural versus reduced-form inference and the external validity of results derived from field experiments like those associated with Randomized controlled trials in development research led by scholars connected to University of Chicago and Princeton University. Questions about editorial bias, representativeness of contributors from elite institutions like Harvard University, Yale University, and geographic imbalances reflecting underrepresentation of scholars from regions such as Africa and Latin America have also been raised.
Economic Inquiry is part of a wider ecosystem including journals such as American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, and Journal of Econometrics. Its editorial practices follow peer review conventions common to publishers like Wiley-Blackwell and professional associations including the American Economic Association. Research norms emphasize replication using repositories similar to those maintained by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and data-sharing initiatives promoted by entities like the National Science Foundation.
Category:Economics journals