Explorations in Economic History is an 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 quantitative economic history

Economic history

Economic history is the study of economies or economic phenomena in the past. Analysis in economic history is undertaken using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and by applying economic theory to historical situations and institutions...

. It follows the quantitative or formal approaches that have been called cliometrics

Cliometrics

Cliometrics, sometimes called new economic history, or econometric history, is the systematic application of economic theory, econometric techniques, and other formal or mathematical methods to the study of history . It is a quantitative approach to economic history...

 or the new economic history, applied to any place and time. These formal approaches apply mathematical economic theory, model building, and statistical estimation.

Tables of contents for the issues back to 1969 are online, and the 1969 issues were numbered as volume 7. This implies that the journal was established in about 1963. It is published by Elsevier

Elsevier

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. The editors are Richard H. Steckel and Timothy Leunig.