From the Managing Editor

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A warm welcome to the first edition of The Econometrics Journal Newsletter. I hope you will find it informative and of interest. The primary aim of The Econometrics Journal is the publication of econometric research with a standard of intellectual rigour and academic standing similar to that in the top field journals in econometrics. It is a general journal covering all areas of econometrics and encourages the submission of first‐class papers in macro‐, micro‐ and financial econometrics. As an international Journal, the professional skills and experience of a wide array of well established econometricians from top institutions worldwide is utilised to help in the selection process of research papers for publication. Recent editorial changes include the appointment of Michael Jansson (U.C. Berkeley) as Co‐Editor to replace Pierre Perron (Boston University) who completed his term as Co‐Editor and Andrew Patton (Duke University) as Co‐editor replacing Jianqing Fan (Princeton) on his taking up the position of Editor of Journal of Econometrics. Alexei Onatski (University of Cambridge) succeeds Robert Taylor (University of Essex) who completed his term as Assistant Editor and Book Reviews Editor who has taken up the position of Editor‐in‐Chief of Journal of Time Series Analysis. The Econometrics Journal is very grateful to Jianqing, Pierre and Robert for their excellent service. respectively; 2011‐08 and 2011‐10 figures respectively in parentheses. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all Co‐Editors, Associate Editors of and referees for the journal for their continuing efforts and support without which these improvements would not have occurred. Turn‐around times continue to improve. For decisions on all submissions the mean for time to first decision in 2012‐13 was 43 days down from 50 in 2011‐12.