Announcement: Oxford Journals and the CESifo Group announce publishing partnership

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Oxford Journals and the CESifo Group announce publishing 
partnership

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), 
today announced that CESifo Economic Studies (CES), published on 
behalf of the CESifo Group in Munich, has become the latest high 
profile journal to join the Oxford Journals list.

Formerly ifo Studien, this international journal publishes 
provocative, high-quality papers in economics, with a particular 
focus on policy issues. Since its launch in 1979, CES has 
received accolades for its unique method of combining theory and 
empirical research in a style accessible to economists across all 
specialisations. Oxford Journals will work in close association 
with the ifo Group to provide enhanced services to this 
already-established publication for authors, and readers.

"We are delighted that the CESifo Group has given us the 
opportunity to work with them in the publication of their 
excellent journal," said Martin Green, Senior Editor, Economics 
and Social Sciences Journals, at OUP.

"We believe in traditional values such as a personal and 
supportive service for the learned societies with which we have 
publishing agreements, and can offer the CESifo Group a unique 
combination of stability, based on 500 years of publishing 
expertise, married with a record of high quality and innovation. 
We are looking forward to working with the ifo Institute and the 
CES Editorial team to develop the Journal, and to ensure that it 
achieves its potential to be a high-quality and influential 
journal on the international stage."

CES joins a prestigious Oxford Journals economics list that 
includes such titles as The Review of Financial Studies, Journal 
of Law Economics and Organization, and World Bank Economic 
Review. Oxford Journals will assume publication of CESifo 
Economic Studies from January 2006.

Notes to Editors:

The CESifo Group, consisting of the Center for Economic Studies 
(CES), the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and the CESifo 
GmbH (Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research), is 
a research group unique in Europe in the area of economic 
research. It combines the theoretically oriented economic 
research of the university with the empirical work of a leading 
Economic research institute and places this combination in an 
international environment. The services of the CESifo Group range 
from internationally established service products, such as the 
CESifo World Economic Survey and the Database for Institutional 
Comparisons in Europe (DICE), to internationally acclaimed 
research, the promotion of junior researchers, and the numerous, 
widely publicised contributions to policy debate at the national 
and European levels.

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