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clicking on the JEL code links (for example, A3, H7); these contain more
descriptive guidelines, keywords, and also examples of items with that
specific classification.
A General Economics and Teaching
B History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches
C Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
D Microeconomics
E Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
F International Economics
G Financial Economics
H Public Economics
I Health, Education, and Welfare
J Labor and Demographic Economics
K Law and Economics
L Industrial Organization
M Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting
N Economic History
O Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth
P Economic Systems
Q Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics
R Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics
Y Miscellaneous Categories
Z Other Special Topics
E
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.
Covers studies about general issues related to macroeconomics, including macroeconomics textbooks and survey studies about multi-macroeconomic subjects.
