Editorial, International Economics

摘要

We would like to thank you for your increased interest in International Economics and share with you some recent developments and changes. The scope of our journal is to publish top-quality, original research in applied and specifically empirical international economics. We aim for a quick turn-around. The time from submission to first decision is on average 8 days, while the time from submission to final decision decreased from around 25 weeks in 2015 to 22 weeks in 2018. Recent highly downloaded and cited papers cover topics as diverse as global value chains, the effects of natural resource on growth, the role of carbon emissions in a global economy, the effect of governance on economic growth, the volatility estimation of Bitcoins, and exchange rate predictability, to name just a few. Further, we have a "Data, Tools, and Replication" section that is devoted to the publication of short notes presenting new and innovative datasets in the area of international economics, new tools useful for research in international economics, and/or replications of existing empirical studies in the field of international economics. In this section, we are planning to have articles describing a database on the Belt and Road Initiative, a routine to harmonize product classifications over time, different economic sanction databases, a new trade elasticity database, and a novel trade and production database in the near future. We also offer a "Fast Track" option, with a "yes or no" decision given within six weeks, and a transfer option for papers that were rejected from top field or general-purpose journals.