jme-topic-selection

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# Topic Selection & Scope Fit (jme-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- You have a macro idea but are unsure it is "monetary enough" for JME
- The question is technically interesting but its macro or policy payoff is unclear
- You are choosing between a generalist top journal and a field outlet
- You want to target the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU policy issue or the Gerzensee macro-policy issue

## The JME scope

JME publishes **monetary economics and macroeconomics broadly defined**: monetary theory and policy, central banking, business cycles, growth, financial markets and intermediation, fiscal–monetary interactions, expectations, and the macroeconomic effects of money and finance. It welcomes **both theoretical and empirical work**, including DSGE / quantitative macro and applied policy analysis. A good JME paper is not a narrow micro-empirical estimate dressed in macro language; it speaks to how money, finance, and policy shape aggregate outcomes.

Two scope tells make JME distinctive. First, **one issue each year is devoted to the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference Series on Public Policy** — a defining feature signaling JME's appetite for serious monetary/fiscal policy questions — and roughly every two years an additional issue carries proceedings from the **Swiss National Bank Study Center Gerzensee** macro-policy conference. Second, the journal is equally hospitable to a clean **quantitative model** (e.g., a DSGE or HANK mechanism) and to a credible **empirical** study (e.g., the effects of an identified monetary shock).