Journal of Monetary Economics

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Monetary Economics publishes important research contributions to a wide range of modern macroeconomic topics including work along empirical, methodological and theoretical lines.

In recent years, these topics have been: asset pricing; banking, credit and financial markets; behavioral macroeconomics; business cycle analysis; consumption, labor supply, and saving; dynamic equilibria (theory and computational methods); economic growth and development; expectation formation, information and aggregate economic activity; fiscal shocks and fiscal policies; expectation formation; forecasting, macroeconometrics, and time series analysis; information and aggregate economic activity; international trade, exchange rates, and open economy macroeconomics; labor markets ; macroeconomic data and history; monetary policy; monetary theory; money demand and money supply behavior; optimal contracting and economic activity; productivity measurement and theory; pricing in product markets and labor markets; and real investment (inventories, fixed, human capital).

The Journal of Monetary Economics has eight regular issues per year, with the Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy as the January and July issues.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	4.1

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	7.872

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	158

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Economics, Econometrics and Finance, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• On the mechanics of economic development

  Citation: 12027

  Authors: Robert E.

• Staggered prices in a utility-maximizing framework

  Citation: 5133

  Authors: Guillermo A.

• The equity premium: A puzzle

  Citation: 3788

  Authors: Rajnish, Edward C.

• Trends and random walks in macroeconmic time series

  Citation: 3069

  Authors: Charles R., Charles R.

• Is public expenditure productive?

  Citation: 2824

  Authors: David Alan

• Financial intermediation and growth: Causality and causes

  Citation: 2661

  Authors: Ross, Norman, Thorsten

• Implications of rational inattention

  Citation: 2584

  Authors: Christopher A.

• Finance, entrepreneurship and growth

  Citation: 1984

  Authors: Robert G, Ross

• Rules, discretion and reputation in a model of monetary policy

  Citation: 1882

  Authors: Robert J., David B.

• The role of human capital in economic development evidence from aggregate cross-country data

  Citation: 1874

  Authors: Jess, Mark M.

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