Starting in 2025, Economic Policy will undergo substantial changes. It will be published online only (commencing with issue 125, scheduled for publication in 2026), and papers will appear as soon as they are ready. The number of papers will be reduced, and all of them will be commissioned. The guiding principle for this change is to enhance the policy relevance of the review, while at the same time keeping the academic rigour and state-of-the-art quality of the papers. In its new format, EP research will contribute to the global public good of evidence-based policy-making.

The management structure will be streamlined, with a single Managing Editor in charge of commissioning and thoroughly editing papers, and there will no longer be Senior Editors. The EP Panel will change to a standard format of paper discussion. Discussants will be chosen yearly (as opposed to longer-serving Panel members) and will be matched with the papers based on their expertise and the topic of the bi-annual conference.

We are delighted to announce that Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, former Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Maryland, College Park, and new Schreiber Family Professor of Economics at Brown University, has accepted the role of Managing Editor. We wish to express our gratitude to the current Managing Editors, Roberto Galbiati and Isabelle Méjean, as well as to the departing Senior Editors Pierre Cahuc, Kai Konrad, and Kevin O’Rourke.

Therefore, submissions of unsolicited papers are now closed.

Clemens Fuest, Moritz Schularick and Charles Wyplosz
Co-Chairs, Economic Policy Board