Essex Economics Students' Journal - the EESJ

Scope, Aims and Selection Criteria

Scope: The EESJ publishes the best term papers and projects relating to all aspects of economics and written by undergraduate students in the Economics Department, University of Essex. It will have two issues per year, one during the Autumn Term and one during the Spring Term. The target number of published papers in each issue is five term papers and one project.

Aims: The journal was originally conceived by David Muñoz Andrade (BSc Economics 2006) in conjunction with Dr Carmen Li and the students' Economics Society. It aims to improve the overall students' academic performance by stimulating and rewarding good research practice among the students.

Selection criteria: The Editorial Board will select the papers for publication and the names of the authors whose papers have been nominated (but not selected) will also be published. Nominations are at the discretion of the Managing Editor and will reflect both high quality and variety across the range of subjects. The papers that will be considered for possible publication will be those with a mark above or equal to 70. However, the Editorial Board also reserves the right to select papers/projects below this threshold.

Publication of any item in the EESJ is made on the understanding that the material (term paper, dissertation or essay) has not been, and will not be, published elsewhere, for example in ESTRO Essex Student Research Online.

Roy Bailey prize: In further encouragement of students' academic excellence, from 2009/10 the Editorial Board will award a prize for the best Term Paper submitted to the EESJ each academic year. The winning paper will be chosen from among those submitted early in the summer term or published in the immediately preceding spring issue of the EESJ. If not previously published, the winning paper will appear in the next issue of the EESJ.

Separately from the EESJ, the Department of Economics annually awards a prize for the best undergraduate research project (see list of economics prizes). The winning dissertation is normally shortlisted for publication, but its publication is at the discretion of the author and the EESJ Editorial Board.

Overall responsibility: The Department of Economics (in the person of the Head of Department) is responsible for the EESJ, in consultation with the Essex Economics Society.

• Autumn Term 2006
• Spring Term 2007
• Autumn Term 2007
• Spring Term 2008
• Autumn Term 2008
• Spring Term 2009
• Autumn Term 2009
• Spring Term 2010
• Autumn Term 2010
• Spring Term 2011
• Autumn Term 2011
• Spring Term 2012

Editorial Board

The Journal is managed by the Managing Editor (Director of Undergraduate Studies) who chairs the Editorial Board and is responsible for the EESJ web page. The Economics Society nominates three members to the Editorial Board from among all the students of the Economics Department, and the Head of the Economics Department nominates a staff member.

The Managing Editor will nominate papers/projects for possible publication, and will ask the authors of these papers/projects to grant permission for publication in the event that the paper is selected and to follow the instructions for authors (see below). The Managing Editor will also establish a deadline for replies. No papers/projects will be considered for publication after this deadline. The Editorial Board will select the papers for publication from among those nominated. The Editorial Board is aware of possible conflicts of interest and it will consult a third party (normally the Head of Department) whose decision will be final.

For the academic year 2011-2012, the Editorial Board is comprised of: Gianluigi Vernasca (Director of Undergraduate Studies and Manager Editor), David Reinstein (member of staff), Huseyin Sevinc (second year student), Dan Munteanu (final year student) and Mathias Skillingstad (final year student).

Instructions for authors

All manuscripts should be submitted in Word format. The first page of the paper should include only the title, author's name and abstract (120 words maximum).