The Journal of Quantitative Economics was established in 1983 as the official journal of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) to promote research in the broad areas of Econometrics and Mathematical Economics. From the inception, the journal has had several illustrious scholars such as Kaushik Basu, K.L. Krishna, A.L. Nagar, C.R. Rao, Amartya Sen, T.N. Srinivasan on its editorial board. The journal continues to provide a forum for economists, mathematicians and statisticians to publish quantitative papers in all subfields of Economics, with a special focus on less developed countries. JQEC covers economic theory and theoretical and applied econometrics, with special focus on quantitative applications to less developed countries. It publishes quantitative papers with basic or applied research orientation in all sub-fields of economics that employ rigorous theoretical, empirical and experimental methods. The journal also encourages short papers and review articles and in particular innovative and fundamental papers that focus on various facets of economics of the emerging market and developing economies. With the help of an international editorial board and carefully selected referees, it aims to minimize the time taken to complete the review process while preserving the quality of the articles published.