Economic Policy is a quarterly journal providing timely and authoritative analyses of the choices confronting policymakers.

It offers an independent, non-partisan, perspective on issues of worldwide concern. It emphasizes problems of international significance, either because they affect the world economy directly or because the experience of one country contains important lessons for policymakers elsewhere.

The subject matter ranges from the study of how individual markets can and should work to the broadest interactions in the world economy. It has earned a worldwide reputation for identifying current and emerging policy topics and subjecting them to an analysis that is both rigorous and accessibly presented.

All the articles are specifically commissioned from leading professional economists. Their brief is to illuminate topical policy issues by combining the insights of modern economics with best available evidence. The presentation is incisive and written in plain language accessible to a wide range of participants in the policy debate.

Prior to publication, each article is discussed by a Panel of distinguished economists. Summaries of Panellists’ comments are included in each volume in order to provide readers with alternative interpretations of the evidence and a sense of the liveliness of the current debate. The Panel, which rotates annually, represents a broad range of specialisations and nationalities.

In October 2015, Economic Policy celebrated its 30th anniversary with a special celebration at the European Commission, which also served as the launch for the commemorative publication ‘Thirty Years of Economic Policy: Inspiration for Debate’.

Economic Policy is jointly owned by Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Center for Economic Studies of the University of Munich (CESifo Group), and Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po), and published by Oxford University Press.