Dear Colleagues: I want to bring to your attention a new
service which you might find of interest. We will be publishing
abstracting journals in economics with all paper abstracts
approved by "Senior" Professors -- us old guys! :-) Other
suggestions for abstracting journals are welcomed. Please contact
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] or me.
Thanks. PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THE LIST.
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April 3, 1996
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Eugene F. Fama and the Social Science
Research Network
join
Martin Feldstein, Michael C. Jensen, and M. Wayne Marr
in announcing the
ECONOMICS RESEARCH NETWORK (ERN)
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Complimentary Subscriptions Available
See instructions and form at end of this document
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The Economics Research Network (ERN) is directed by Martin
Feldstein and Michael C. Jensen. Feldstein is George F.
Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and
President of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Jensen is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business
Administration, Harvard Business School, and President of
Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. M. Wayne Marr is
Associate Director of ERN and Vice President of Social
Science Electronic Publishing, Inc.
The Economics Research Network is dedicated to
increasing communication among economics scholars,
practitioners, and policymakers throughout the world. ERN
joins the Financial Economics Network (FEN), the Accounting
Research Network (ARN),and the Legal Scholarship Network
(LSN) as the latest addition to the research networks
sponsored by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). The
ERN Advisory Board is listed below.
We publish author contact information so that our readers can
obtain full copies of the research.
Instructions to authors and working paper coordinators for
submitting abstracts for publication are given below. We
encourage readers to have their institution's working paper
coordinators get in touch with [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
arrange to have their entire series listed in ERN.
SSRN is the umbrella organization founded by Eugene F. Fama,
Michael C. Jensen, M. Wayne Marr and Social Science Electronic
Publishing, Inc. to increase worldwide communication and rapid
distribution of research among scholars and practitioners in
the social science, business, law, and policy communities.
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THIRTEEN NEW INTERNET ELECTRONIC
JOURNALS
Professors Feldstein and Jensen announce the formation of
thirteen new Internet electronic abstracting journals to be
published by the Economics Research Network:
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ABSTRACTS
ECONOMETRICS ABSTRACTS
ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS HISTORY ABSTRACTS
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS ABSTRACTS
HEALTH ECONOMICS ABSTRACTS
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION AND REGULATION ABSTRACTS
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE ABSTRACTS
INTERNATIONAL TRADE ABSTRACTS
LABOR ABSTRACTS
ORGANIZATION & MARKETS ABSTRACTS
MACROECONOMICS AND MONETARY ECONOMICS ABSTRACTS
MICROECONOMIC THEORY ABSTRACTS
PUBLIC ECONOMICS ABSTRACTS
ERN will also publish two additional professional service
journals:
ERN-PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
ERN-PROFESSIONAL JOB OPENINGS.
SOME DETAILS ON OUR NEW JOURNALS
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MACROECONOMICS AND MONETARY ECONOMICS ABSTRACTS
This Journal publishes abstracts of empirical and
theoretical papers in macroeconomics and monetary economics.
Macroeconomics is interpreted to include business cycles and
economic growth, inflation, unemployment, and the behavior
of various components of aggregate demand (consumption,
residential and nonresidential investment and net exports).
Also welcome are studies of savings, budget deficits and
technical progress. Monetary economics includes studies of
interest rates, exchange rates, and monetary aggregates,
monetary policy, and the actions of banks and other
financial institutions.
MICROECONOMIC THEORY ABSTRACTS
This Journal publishes abstracts of papers in microeconomic
theory and general equilibrium analysis. Topics include: the
theory of households and firms; general equilibrium analysis;
game theory; economic welfare; information and uncertainty.
(Note that there are separate Economic Research Network
Journals for a variety of applied aspects of
microeconomics, including Industrial Organization, Labor
Economics, and Public Economics.)
ECONOMETRICS ABSTRACTS
This Journal publishes abstracts of papers in theoretical and
applied econometrics and those aspects of statistics that are
likely to be of interest to econometricians and economists.
Topics include: estimation of single equation models and
simultaneous equation models; analysis of time series data,
panel data, qualitative data, and other special topics;
Bayesian analysis; and nonparametric methods.
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION AND REGULATION ABSTRACTS
This Journal publishes abstracts of empirical and
theoretical papers in the full range of subjects that
comprise Industrial Organization and Regulation. Topics
include: the structure of markets; strategy of firms;
sources of technical progress; privatization; antitrust
policy; regulation of all types, and specific industry
studies.(Note that there are separate Economic Research
Network Journals for Microeconomic Theory and for
Organizations and Markets.)
ORGANIZATION & MARKETS ABSTRACTS
Editor: George P. Baker, Professor, Harvard Business School
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
617-495-6119
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston, MA 02163
Organization & Markets Abstracts brings together the
literature in the growing and merging fields of organization
theory and organizational economics. Relevant papers will be
drawn from the (existing) fields of Corporate Finance,
Contract Theory, Labor Economics, Human Resource Management,
IO, Strategy, Law and Economics, Organizational and
Individual Psychology, and Sociology. The objective of the
journal is to provide a single forum for the dissemination
of both theoretical and empirical papers addressing the
existence, evolution, design, and performance of
organizations, and the interaction between organizations and
markets.
LABOR ABSTRACTS
Editors: Michael Gibbs, Visiting Assistant Professor,
University of Chicago and University of Michigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
313-763-9219 voice
313-936-8715 fax
University of Michigan Business School
701 Tappan Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234
Edward Lazear, Jack Steel Parker Professor of Human
Resources Management and Economics, Graduate School
of Business, Stanford University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
415-723-3196 voice
415-723-0498 fax
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5015
Labor Abstracts publishes abstracts of working papers and
accepted papers dealing with research in the field of labor
economics, broadly defined with respect to methodology
(theoretical and empirical) and subject matter (any topic
related to labor markets and the employment relationship).
This will include topics in closely related fields,
including agency theory and incentive contracting,
industrial relations, personnel, human resource management,
and labor/employment law as appropriate.
PUBLIC ECONOMICS ABSTRACTS
This Journal publishes abstracts of empirical and
theoretical papers in Public Economics. Topics include:
taxation; social insurance; deficits and debt; state and
local finance; theory of public expenditure; government
spending; government provision of goods and services; welfare
programs; education; defense; privatization; and effects of
taxation and other fiscal policies on macroeconomic
performance. (Note that there are separate Economic
Research Network Journals for Microeconomic Theory,
for Industrial Organization and for Organizations and
Markets.)
HEALTH ECONOMICS ABSTRACTS
This Journal publishes abstracts of empirical and
theoretical papers in the full range of subjects that
comprise Health Economics, including both health care and
the economic determinants of health status. Topics include:
the market for health services; private and public health
insurance; the pharmaceutical industry; health care costs;
the effects of health care and health care programs on
health outcomes; the economic and social determinants of
behavior that affects health; the economic consequences of
mortality and morbidity; causes and consequences of
substance abuse; the economics of health R and D; government
programs; fertility; value of life and of improvements in
health status; and economics of aging and the aged.
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS ABSTRACTS
This Journal publishes abstracts of empirical and
theoretical papers in the full range of subjects that
comprise Environmental Economics. Topics include: economic
causes and consequences of environmental changes; tax and
regulatory policies that affect the environment; markets for
pollution rights and related issues; government policies
toward the environment; and intergovernmental cooperation in
environmental policy. (Note that there are separate Economic
Research Network Journals for Public Economics, Industrial
Organization and Regulation and Health Economics.)
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ABSTRACTS
This Journal publishes abstracts of applied and theoretical
papers dealing with all aspects of Development Economics.
Topics include all aspects of economic performance and
policy in developing countries, emerging markets, and the
former socialist countries. Specific subjects include such
things as industrialization, human resource development,
international trade, and taxation and social insurance as
they apply to developing economies. Papers dealing with the
experience in individual countries are also welcome.
(Note that there are separate Economic Research Network
Journals for International Trade, International Finance,
Public Economics and Environmental Economics.)
INTERNATIONAL TRADE ABSTRACTS
This Journal publishes abstracts of empirical and
theoretical papers dealing with all aspects of International
Trade. The topics include all aspects of trade and
investment, trade policy, the effects of customs unions and
other trading arrangements, international tax issues, factor
movements including migration, economic integration, and
regionalization. A separate Economic Research Network
Journal deals with International Finance and related
macroeconomic issues.
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE ABSTRACTS
This Journal publishes abstracts of empirical and
theoretical papers dealing with all aspects of International
Finance and associated macroeconomic issues. Topics include
exchange rates, international monetary arrangements, capital
flows, current account adjustments, and all aspects of open
economy macroeconomics. all aspects of trade and investment,
trade policy, the effects of customs unions and other
trading arrangements, international tax issues, factor
movements including migration, and economic integration. A
separate Economic Research Network Journal deals with
International Trade.
ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS HISTORY ABSTRACTS
This Journal publishes abstracts of papers dealing with all
aspects of economic history, including the economic and
business history of the United States and of other
countries.
ERN-PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
This Journal will carry professional announcements of interest
to the economics profession including professional meetings,
calls for papers, new journals, special issues of journals,
etc.
ERN-PROFESSIONAL JOB OPENINGS
This Journal will carry announcements of Ph.D level job
openings in academia, government and industry.
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SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
AUTHORS: To publish your working paper or accepted paper
abstract in ERN's journals please submit by E-mail an
abstract of approximately 150 words to:
Professor Baker for Organizations & Markets Abstracts at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Professor Gibbs for Labor Abstracts at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or where there is no editor noted above to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please specify the journal or journals (no more than 2) for
which you think the abstract is most appropriate, and
provide the relevant JEL classifications for your article.
You may also submit the abstract on a diskette (please
indicate format) or by hard copy. We must have complete
contact information including E-mail and postal address,
phone and fax numbers for the contact author, and the E-mail
address and institutional affiliation for any co-authors.
We must have a hard copy of your manuscript prior to
publication of the abstract. Please send it in the form of
a diskette or E-mail attachment of the document in Word or
Wordperfect format, or hard copy to the editor noted above,
or if no editor is listed to:
M. Wayne Marr
Associate Director
Economics Research Network
1121 Black Locust
Pflugerville, Texas 78660
Please write or E-mail Professors Baker and Gibbs for any
additional information on their journals or Wayne Marr for
the remaining journals or for submission of announcements,
job openings, or other information of interest to the
profession.
SUBMISSION OF ANNOUNCEMENTS OR JOB OPENINGS
Professional announcements and job openings should be
submitted by E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a cc: to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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that provides job opportunities and the resumes of
professionals seeking positions.
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ECONOMICS RESEARCH NETWORK
DIRECTORS
MARTIN FELDSTEIN
George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard
University; President, National Bureau of Economic
Research
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
National Bureau of Economics Research
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
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MICHAEL C. JENSEN
Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration,
Harvard Business School; President, Social Science
Electronic Publishing, Inc.
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Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston, MA 02163
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
M. WAYNE MARR
Vice President, Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1121 Black Locust Drive
Pflugerville, TX 78660
Please E-mail or write us at the above addresses with your
comments, questions or suggestions for ERN.
ADVISORY BOARD
JOHN CAMPBELL
Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard
University
EUGENE FAMA
Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of
Finance, Graduate School of Business, University of
Chicago; Advisory Editor, Journal of Financial Economics;
Chairman of Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc.
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Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow, Hoover
Institution Stanford University; Director, Research
Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth, National
Bureau of Economic Research.
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Economics and MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
LARRY KATZ
Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Editor,
Quarterly Journal of Economics
EDWARD LAZEAR
Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources Management
and Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford
University and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution,
Stanford University; Founding and current Editor:
Journal of Labor Economics
PAUL MILGROM
Shirley R. and Leonard W. Ely, Jr. Professor of Humanities
and Sciences, and Professor of Economics, Stanford
University
SAM PELTZMAN
Sears, Roebuck Professor of Economics and Financial
Services, Graduate School of Business, University of
Chicago; Editor, Journal of Law and Economics
JOHN PENCAVEL
Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Editor,
Journal of Economic Literature
A. MITCHELL POLINSKY
Josephine Scott Crocker Professor of Law and Economics,
Director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics,
Stanford Law School; Co-Director, Legal Scholarship
Network
CHARLES PLOSSER
Dean and John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics
and Public Policy, William E. Simon Graduate School of
Business Administration, U of Rochester; Editor: Journal
of Monetary Economics and Carnegie-Rochester Conference
Series on Public Policy
Hughes-Rogers Professor Emeritus, Princeton University;
Senior Advisor, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
SHERWIN ROSEN
Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service
Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Editor,
Journal of Political Economy
HAL R. VARIAN
Dean, School of Information Management and Systems,
Professor, Haas School of Business, Professor, Department
of Economics, Class of 1944 Professor, University of
California, Berkeley
ARNOLD ZELLNER
H.G.B. Alexander Distinguished Service Professor of
Economics and Statistics, Director, H.G.B. Alexander
Research Foundation, Graduate School of Business,
University of Chicago; Editor, Journal of Econometrics
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___Law and Economics
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___Journal of Accounting Abstracts
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