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jme-topic-selection

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Use when assessing whether a research question fits the Journal of Monetary Economics (JME) — monetary theory and policy, central banking, business cycles, growth, financial intermediation, fiscal interactions, and expectations — before investing in a model or estimation. Checks scope fit and the policy/conceptual payoff bar.

When to use

• assessing if a research question is monetary enough for JME
• checking scope fit for monetary theory and policy
• evaluating central banking and business cycle topics
• reviewing fiscal-monetary interactions and expectations
• targeting Carnegie-Rochester-NYU policy issues
• targeting Gerzensee macro-policy issues
• judging if a question has a clear macro or policy lesson
• comparing against sibling venues like JIE, RED, and AEJ Macro

When not to use

• pure labor, IO, or development micro papers with no macro aggregation
• new estimators with no monetary or macro application
• finance-asset-pricing papers with no monetary or macro mechanism
• descriptive data papers with no conceptual or policy payoff
• narrow micro-empirical estimates dressed in macro language

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