The RAND Journal of Economics

Discipline	Economics
Language	English
Publication details
Former name(s)	The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, The Bell Journal of Economics
History	1970-present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the RAND Corporation (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	1.986 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	RAND J. Econ.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0741-6261
JSTOR	07416261
Bell Journal
ISSN	0361-915X
Links
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The RAND Journal of Economics (usually called RAND Journal or simply Rand ) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of economics published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the RAND Corporation. It publishes theoretical and empirical papers on industrial organization and related topics.^[1] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.986.^[2]

History

The journal was established in 1970 by AT&T's Bell Labs economics group as The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science.^[3] From 1975 to 1983 it was titled The Bell Journal of Economics. In 1984, after transfer to the RAND Corporation, it acquired its present name.