Ragnar Frisch, the first president of the ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY
[http://www.econometricsociety.org/] envisioned the society as
promoting studies that aim at the unification of the
theoretical-quantitative and the empirical-quantitative approach to
economic problems and that are penetrated by constructive and rigorous
thinking.
Quantitative Economics, a new journal sponsored by the Econometric
Society, is designed to provide a home for papers that fulfill this
vision. As such, it will complement the role currently played by
Econometrica.
Quantitative Economics will be oriented towards empirical research
that is rigorously informed by econometrics and/or economic theory and
econometric and theory work that is empirically directed. This does
not imply, however, that the journal does not welcome theoretical and
computational papers. Theory has a place in the new journal if it has
an obvious empirical orientation (such as work on identification or
estimation and computational techniques with practical interest).
The work published by QE will be united by substance rather than
methodology. We aim at covering a variety of applied fields, including
labour economics, industrial organization, development and growth
economics, macroeconomics, international economics, public finance and
social economics.
QE’s editorial board will strive to reduce the length of the
editorial process, keeping at a minimum multiple revision and trying
to avoid delays while maintaining the highest standards in the
editorial process. At the same time, the editorial board is especially
interested in providing a forum for papers that are innovative beyond
established types of analysis and are willing to challenge
conventional ways of conducting empirical work.
