EC248-2-SP: Monetary Innovations and Central Banks

Here are some relevant journals, with their publisher's websites:

1. Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier Science – since its foundation in 1975, it has established itself as the top periodical reference for theoretical and empirical research in the broad field of monetary economics: JME is accessible for reading either at the Albert Sloman Library or via its EBSCO Host Electronic Journal Service facility (the issues of the most recent 12 months, in the latter case, with Essex password).
2. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Ohio State University Press – founded in 1969, JMCB is a leading professional journal in the areas of money and banking, credit markets, regulation of financial institutions, international payments, portfolio management, and monetary and fiscal policy; it is accessible for reading either at the Albert Sloman Library or in electronic format via JSTOR (up to 2002, in the latter case) or Business Source Premier (with Essex password).
3. Journal of Banking and Finance, Elsevier Science – a leading journal specialised in the analysis of financial institutions and the money and capital markets within which they function, JBF is accessible for reading either at the Albert Sloman Library or via its EBSCO Host Electronic Journal Service facility (the issues of the most recent 12 months, in the latter case, with Essex password).
4. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, Elsevier Science – founded in the early 1990s, JIFMIM has been focusing on articles which deal with the international aspects of financial markets, institutions and money; unfortunately, it is not (yet) available at the Albert Sloman Library.
5. Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier Science – since its launch in 1982, JIMF has built up a solid reputation as a high-quality scholarly journal devoted to theoretical and empirical research in the fields of international monetary economics, international finance, and the rapidly developing overlap area between the two: it is accessible for reading either at the Albert Sloman Library or via its EBSCO Host Electronic Journal Service facility (the issues of the most recent 12 months, in the latter case, with Essex password).
6. Central Banking, Central Banking Publications Ltd – launched in 1990 and published quarterly, CB is the first journal dedicated exclusively to reporting, analysing and commenting on the activities of the central banks; unfortunately, it is not (yet) available at the Albert Sloman Library.
7. International Journal of Central Banking, Central Banking Publications Ltd – an initiative of the central banking community, IJCB is a new quarterly publication (launched in 2005) that features articles on central bank theory and practice, with special emphasis on research relating to monetary and financial stability; unfortunately, it is not (yet) available at the Albert Sloman Library.
8. Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier Science – another leading, since 1974, journal within the broader field of finance which now seeks to publish papers that raise a new question or pose an old one in an innovative way as well as papers that test theories in specialised ways or document interesting phenomena: JFE is accessible for reading either at the Albert Sloman Library or via its EBSCO Host Electronic Journal Service facility (the issues of the most recent 12 months, in the latter case, with Essex password).