The Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 of economics

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

 published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Canadian Economics Association

Canadian Economics Association

The Canadian Economics Association is an academic association of Canadian economists. Formerly part of the Canadian Political Science Association, CEA was formed as a separate scientific society in 1967. It currently has over 1,500 members, two thirds of which reside in Canada...

. In 1967 the journal was established from a split of The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science

The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science

The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science was an academic journal established in 1928. From 1928-1934 it was published under the title Contributions to Canadian Economics. In 1967-1968 the journal was split into the Canadian Journal of Economics and the Canadian Journal of Political...

into this journal and the Canadian Journal of Political Science

Canadian Journal of Political Science

The Canadian Journal of Political Science is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Canadian Political Science Association. In 1968, it was split off from a previous journal called The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science5. The...

. The current editor-in-chief is David Green (University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...

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Each year, the journal publishes the Presidential Address and Innis Lecture from the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association, which also offers two prizes for articles published in the journal: The Harry Johnson Prize (named after the late Canadian economist Harry Gordon Johnson

Harry Gordon Johnson

Harry Gordon Johnson was a Canadian economist who studied topics such as International trade and International finance.He was born on 26 May 1923 in Toronto, Canada, the elder son of two children of Henry Herbert Johnson, newspaperman and later secretary of the Liberal Party of Ontario, and his...

) for the overall best paper, and the Robert Mundell

Robert Mundell

Robert Mundell, CC is a Nobel Prize-winning Canadian economist. Currently, Mundell is a professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong....

Prize, for the best article by a young economist.