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Susan Athey
Ted Bergstrom
Michele Boldrin
V.V. Chari
Jeff Ely
Drew Fudenberg
Matthew O. Jackson
Jon Levin
David K. Levine
Thomas R. Palfrey
Wolfgang Pesendorfer
Matt Rabin
Ariel Rubinstein
Jose A. Scheinkman
Ran Spiegler

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1. NAJ Economics is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization incorporated in California to facilitate academic and scientific communication among economists. Copies of the tax exempt application and annual returns are available for inspection or by mail from David K. Levine at the Department of Economics, UCLA, 90095 upon written request.
2. NAJ Economics is governed by the Editorial Board. The charter may be changed and members of the Editorial Board may be added or removed by a 2/3 majority of the members of the Board that choose to vote. Any editor may propose a motion to be voted on by the Board. A motion must be circulated by email, and no vote is final until two weeks from the time the email is sent, or 2/3rds of all of the editors have submitted positive votes. Motions must be circulated to all members of the Board at the email addresses listed at the NAJ website www.najecon.org. A motion to remove an editor may contain no other proposal than the removal of that single editor. Email votes must be returned to the editor making the motion. Once the vote is final the editor who made the motion may tally the results. If the motion is approved, for it to become effective, s/he must then circulate an email to the entire Board indicating which editors voted for or against, or did not vote. The original emails must be kept for inspection of any board member who wishes to see them. 
3. NAJ Economics produces brief reviews of economic articles which are freely available on the Internet and have not appeared in print at the time the review is produced. Articles reviewed are supposed to have substantial scientific merit.These reviews and the pages on which they appear are copyrighted by NAJ Economics and published on the Internet. They may be freely reproduced provided that the substance is not changed. 
4. Papers reviewed are numbered sequentially within volumes, and the length of each volume is chosen to comfortably fit on a single web page. 
5. An Internet publication reviewed by NAJ Economics constitutes peer-reviewed publication, and may be cited as such in vitas and promotional reviews. NAJ Economics provides the peer review. The authors, by making their work freely available on the Internet, provide the publication. 
6. NAJ Economics undertakes to maintain reviews in perpetuity. Links and cached copies will be maintained to the extent permitted by the law. 
7. Links to reviewed articles and cached copies of the reviewed articles are provided for convenience to readers and for archival purposes. 
8. Any editor may contribute a review of an article s/he finds meritorious. Reviews should generally be two or three sentences, for a total of no more than 100 words. Reviews must be filed using the automated system at www.najecon.org. Reviews may not be anonymous. 
9. No editor may review a paper of which s/he is an author. 
10. NAJ Economics is not a journal, does not accept submissions, and solicitations from authors for review are strongly frowned upon. 
11. The initial editorial board is composed by Michele Boldrin, Drew Fudenberg, David K. Levine and Wolfgang Pesendorfer. 
12. The website www.najecon.org is hosted on a web server courtesy of David K. Levine and UCLA. The website manager, David K. Levine is authorized to make non-substantive changes to the FAQ (but not the charter), creating links to other related sites, changes in appearance and so forth. Any changes disagreeable to the editors may be undone through the usual voting procedure, except that only a 1/3rd minority is required to undo a change.