Submission Guidelines and Related Information

The Journal of Economics is published bi-annually by the Missouri Valley Economic Association and is printed in Cedar Falls, Iowa.  It is indexed by the EconLit, e-JEL, and JEL on CD, Sociological Abstracts, and Academic Search.  In addition, the Missouri Valley Economic Association has entered into an electronic licensing relationship with EBSCO Publishing.  The full text of the Journal of Economics can be found on EBSCO Publishing’s databases.  In general, articles submitted to the editor first must have been presented at an annual meeting of the MVEA, held in early winter.  Presented articles have a submission fee of $25.  In addition, the editor may accept a limited number of manuscripts not presented at the meeting.  All such manuscripts have a submission fee of $50 and are subject to the usual refereeing process.  Submit three hard copies of manuscripts to David R. Hakes, Editor, Journal of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614 or e-mail hakes@uni.edu.  Authors may, with no submission fee, submit a comment with regard to an article already published in the Journal or a short note.  These should be narrowly focused pieces, not in excess of 2,000 words, which make some particularly salient point(s).  

Memberships in the Association are on a calendar year basis and include the Journal for that year.  Individual memberships are $40 per year.  Institutional memberships are $100 per year.  Address correspondence regarding memberships, changes in addresses, and other business of the Association (except regarding the Journal) to Fred Abraham, Secretary and Treasurer, MVEA, University of Northern Iowa, Department of Economics, Cedar Falls, IA 506140-0129.  The subscription price of the Journal for non-members is $32 per year in the U.S. and $44 outside the U.S.  For library rates and other issues regarding the Journal (except editorial matters), contact Margie Tieslau, Business Editor,  UNT Dept. of Economics, 1155 Union Circle #311457; Denton, TX  76203-5017 or e-mail tieslau@unt.edu.