Editor's Report

Funding

Subject Category 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 General Economics and Teaching 5 0 3 6 3 2 2 Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 Mathematical and Quantitative Methods 4 7 9 4 10 7 4 Microeconomics 6 6 6 8 9 5 8 Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics 5 6 4 3 3 6 9 International Economics 5 4 0 8 5 3 5 Financial Economics 0 2 2 2 0 2 1 Public Economics 4 5 3 5 3 4 5 Health, Education, and Welfare 3 3 4 6 11 4 20 Labor and Demographic Economics 5 7 5 8 4 6 7 Law and Economics 2 2 0 0 3 1 3 Industrial Organization 3 3 8 4 3 4 7 Business Administration and Economics; Marketing; Accounting 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Economic History 2 0 1 0 0 1 2 Economic Development, Technological Change and Growth 4 2 1 5 6 3 3 Economic Systems 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Agricultural and Natural Resources Economics 1 1 1 0 1 1 5 Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 Other Topics 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 shows the time between submission and the Table Journal's first response, whether to reject, ask for a revision, or accept a manuscript, for the 335 manuscripts submitted during 2018. Forty percent of new submissions received a response within one month (76% of these were summarily rejected without referees; no desk rejections took longer than a month). Eighty percent of manuscripts received a first answer in less than three months and over 90% in less than four months. Decisions almost never took longer than five months. shows the number of submissions and accepted manuscripts from 2009 to 2018. Acceptance rates have been between 10% and 20% for the entire decade. (The unusually high acceptance rate in 2018 is largely attributable to the unusually large number of symposia submissions handled during the year.) Table shows the status of manuscripts submitted in the last 10 years and provides a more accurate account of the editorial process. Table shows the distribution of accepted papers in 2012–2018 by subject, based on the primary JEL code. Considerable fluctuation appears in the number of papers in each category over the six‐year period considered, which is not unusual for a general interest journal. The spike in “health, education, and welfare” in 2018 is largely due to symposia papers. Finally, Table