title: Economica
text: # Economica
  
  Economica is a peer-reviewed academic journal of generalist economics published on behalf of the London School of Economics by Wiley-Blackwell. Established in 1921, it is currently edited by Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Tim Besley, Francesco Caselli, Maitreesh Ghatak, Stephen Machin, Ian Martin, and Gianmarco Ottaviano.
  
  ## Notable papers
  
  Two very influential papers in economics were published in Economica and have inspired a lecture series held annually at the London School of Economics:
  
  * Coase, R. H. (1937). "The Nature of the Firm". Economica. 4 (16): 386–405. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0335.1937.tb00002.x.
  * Phillips, A. W. (1958). "The Relation Between Unemployment and the Rate of Change of Money Wage Rates in the United Kingdom, 1861?1957". Economica. 25 (100): 283–299. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0335.1958.tb00003.x. S2CID 153833665.
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 1.500, ranking it 149th out of 363 journals in the category "Economics".
  
  