The best paper award introduced in 2023 to mark the 160th birthday of the Journal of Economics and Statistics (founded in 1863) was awarded for the second time in 2024 and goes to the best paper published in the Journal in 2023, which was selected by the editorial board based on its contribution, originality and impcat:

“Political Ignorance and the Internet”

by Irene Bertschek and David F.  Müller, published in volume 243(1), 3-28.

Starting 2023, the Journal of Economics and Statistics will be transferred to Diamond Open Access on a year-by-year basis. All articles will thus immediately appear under the Creative Commons license CC-BY. There will be no publication costs for the authors.

The Open Access transformation is based on Subscribe-to-Open, an alternative model that enables the full Open Access transformation of journals through the continuation of existing subscriptions. The prerequisite for successful transformation is that subscriptions are continued to the same extent as before. The editors of the Journal of Economics and Statistics and the publisher De Gruyter would therefore like to thank all subscribers for their support, which has made the transformation to Open Access possible.