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I'd like to start a list that could serve to measure the site's coverage of subfields of economics. This question is a partial response to the concerns expressed in the question, "How can we broaden the site's coverage of the various subfields of economics?". As a goal, it would be nice if we could find a question (or ask a new one if one doesn't already exist) from each of the 20 JEL classification categories. I've reproduces the list from the Wikpedia article here.

There are 20 primary JEL categories:

  • JEL: A – General Economics, Handbooks and Teaching
  • JEL: B – History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches
  • JEL: C – Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
  • JEL: D – Microeconomics
  • JEL: E – Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
  • JEL: F – International Economics
  • JEL: G – Financial Economics
  • JEL: H – Public Economics
  • JEL: I – Health, Education, and Welfare
  • JEL: J – Labor and Demographic Economics
  • JEL: K – Law and Economics
  • JEL: L – Industrial Organization
  • JEL: M – Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting
  • JEL: N – Economic History
  • JEL: O – Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth
  • JEL: P – Economic Systems
  • JEL: Q – Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics
  • JEL: R – Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
  • JEL: Y – Miscellaneous Categories
  • JEL: Z – Other Special Topics.

Could we start by making each answer contain one or more example question from a single JEL category---one answer per JEL category?

Notes:

From Wikipedia, Articles in economics journals are usually classified according to the JEL classification codes, a system originated by the Journal of Economic Literature.

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    $\begingroup$ In my opinion, we should create the primary JEL categories as tags here (using the letter also), i.e. the name of the tag should be "N-Economic History" etc. $\endgroup$
    – Alecos Papadopoulos
    Commented Dec 8, 2014 at 23:42
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    $\begingroup$ This might be one of those exceptional cases where it's worth making this a community wiki. $\endgroup$
    – 410 gone
    Commented Dec 9, 2014 at 4:06
  • $\begingroup$ Related: JEL vs tags $\endgroup$
    – 410 gone
    Commented Dec 9, 2014 at 22:16
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    $\begingroup$ Descriptions of the tags: aeaweb.org/students/Fields.php $\endgroup$
    – jmbejara
    Commented Dec 18, 2014 at 18:44

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JEL: B – History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches

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What was economics like as a field before Adam Smith, the father of *modern* economics?

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JEL: Q – Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics

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Examples: (click on one of the tags above for more)

Pricing a negative externality under high uncertainty and severe non-linearity

A market correction for an industry which has had long-run negative externalities

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JEL: J – Labor and Demographic Economics

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Examples: (click on one of the tags above for more)

Unemployment and the Minimum Wage---what are the main counter-arguments to Card and Krueger?

Employment Volatility and the Relevance of Aggregate Wage Rigidity

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JEL: C – Mathematical and Quantitative Methods

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Examples: (click on one of the tags above for more)

Topological concepts in economic theory

Dealing with Missing Data when Testing the CAPM

Is there always at most one full-support extreme symmetric equilibrium?

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JEL: E – Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

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Examples: (click on one of the tags above for more)

What are main methods for econometrics of Macroeconomics?

Unemployment and the Minimum Wage---what are the main counter-arguments to Card and Krueger?

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JEL: L – Industrial Organization

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Examples: (click on one of the tags above for more)

Price dispersion in online retail

Collusion and number of firms

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  • $\begingroup$ The current IO tag has the British English spelling, but it might make sense to standardize on the American English. $\endgroup$
    – Ubiquitous
    Commented Dec 11, 2014 at 8:05

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