EDITORIAL BOARD MEETINGS

The first meeting of the journal's Editorial Board was held at the ESEM98 (Econometric Society European Meetings) in Berlin at Humboldt University on September 2, 1998 from 9.30 - 10.30 am. Among the decisions made at that meeting were the following: (1) Funds should be raised for an occasional prize to be awarded for the best paper published in the journal during some fixed time period. (2) An online relational database for manuscript tracking should be developed and maintained at Carnegie Mellon University, as has been proposed by Stephen Spear. Access to the online system will be password protected and available only to members of the journal's Editorial Board. (3) Proceed with the installation of a European mirror for MD's web site, to be hosted by the London City University Business School, as has been offered by Mark Salmon.

There was an Editorial Board meeting at the ASSA annual meetings this winter, held in New York. The date and time of that Editorial Board meeting were January 4, 1999 from 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm. The location was the Green Room at the Hilton Hotel in New York. The program for the Econometric Society meetings at those Allied Social Science Associations meetings is online at Econometric Society Program, while the program of the American Economic Association sessions at those allied meetings is online at AEA Program.

There were meetings in Sydney during July 1999 with those members of the Board who attended the Australasian Meetings of the Econometric Society at the University of Technology Sydney and the Workshop on Economic Dynamics organized by Steve Keen at the University of Western Sydney Macarthur. It was decided that there should be an Australasian mirror site for the journal. Carl Chiarella indicated that it could be arranged at the University of Technology in Sydney.

The London Times Higher Education Supplement published a review of this journal in its Friday 8th October 1999 edition on p. 36. The review is reproduced online.  Regarding recent rankings of journals, those based upon the Social Science Citation Index information are the most objective and the most informative.