JEL Classification Codes Guide
The guide provides JEL Code application guidelines, keywords, and examples of items within each classification.
The "JEL" classification system originated with the Journal of Economic Literature and is a standard method of classifying scholarly literature in the field of economics. It is used in many of the AEA's published research materials.
Use the guide to gain insight on how JEL Codes are used to classify articles, dissertations, books, book reviews, and working papers. You will also find it is helpful when adding classification codes to your own work.
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Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics |
| Guideline: | Covers theoretical and empirical studies about the aggregate performance of an economy: output, employment, prices, and interest rates and their determinants. Studies about the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics that are of substantive interest to micro-economists should be cross-classified here and under the appropriate categories in D. However, cross-classification under categories in D should not be automatic. For example, macroeconomic constructs using the representative agent (the consumer or the firm) should not be cross-classified under categories in D unless they contain some novel microeconomic content. Studies about open economy macroeconomics should be classified under appropriate categories in F4. Macroeconomic studies pertaining to economic development should be cross-classified under appropriate E categories and under O11 and other appropriate O categories if they are relevant to the pertinent macroeconomic studies in general. Those studies pertaining to socialist and transitional economies or other economic systems should be cross-classified under appropriate categories in E and P2, P3, or P4. |
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E00
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General |
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E000 |
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: General |
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Covers studies about general issues related to macroeconomics, including macroeconomics textbooks and survey studies about multi-macroeconomic subjects. |
