The Journal of Monetary Economics is a peer-reviewedacademic journal covering research on macroeconomics and monetary economics. It is published by Elsevier and was established in October 1973 by Karl Brunner and Charles I. Plosser. Beginning in 2002, it was merged with the Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy.[1] The latter series was established in 1976 and had been published independently, originally by the North-Holland Publishing Company, now an imprint of Elsevier.[2]