Contemporary Economic Policy is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Western Economic Association International, along with Economic Inquiry.

The current editor-in-chief is Brad R. Humphreys (West Virginia University).

The journal was established in 1982 as Contemporary Policy Issues.

[1] According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2013 impact factor is 0.482, ranking it 234 out of 332 journals in the category "Economics".

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