The Royal Economic Society is delighted to announce the appointment of Dennis Kristensen as Editor-in-Chief of The Econometrics Journal from 1 May 2026.
Dennis Kristensen is Professor of Economics at University College London, Research Associate at CeMMaP and Institute for Fiscal Studies, International Fellow at Aarhus Center for Econometrics (ACE), and Research Fellow at Essex Centre for Macro and Financial Econometrics (ECMFE).
Professor Kristensen’s main research interests are econometric theory, computational economics, applied microeconomics and quantitative finance. He was previously Co-Editor of The Econometrics Journal (2015-2025) and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Journal of Time Series Analysis, and Review of Economic Studies.
“It is an honour to take over the role of Editor-in-Chief of The Econometrics Journal. I would like to thank the Royal Economic Society for this opportunity to serve the economics community. I hope I can maintain the high editorial standards set by Jaap Abbring,” said Professor Kristensen.
Fabien Postel-Vinay, Chair of the RES Publications Committee, said: “I am thrilled that we were able to appoint Professor Dennis Kristensen as the new Editor-in-Chief of The Econometrics Journal. Dennis brings exceptional scholarly expertise and a deep commitment both to the advancement of frontier research in econometrics and to the Journal itself. I am confident he will build on Jaap’s outstanding work as Editor-in-Chief, which has been instrumental in maintaining the journal’s uncompromising standards and in raising its international reputation.”
The Society and The Econometrics Journal Editorial Board would also like to express appreciation and gratitude to Jaap Abbring, Professor of Econometrics at Tilburg University as he completes almost 20 years of exemplary service to the Journal at the end of April.
Professor Abbring has been an excellent editor, valued colleague, and provided outstanding leadership to the Journal as Managing Editor (2017-2026), Co-Editor (2009-2017) and Associate Editor (2007-2009). He implemented a new editorial policy which aims for the rapid and early dissemination of research that is of substantive applied value and oversaw the development and delivery of regular special issues.
Under Jaap’s stewardship, the Journal achieved its highest ever impact factor. The 2024 Journal Citation Reports 2-Year Impact Factor was 7.0, placing the Journal in quartile 1 across four categories: Economics; Mathematics/Interdisciplinary Applications; Social Sciences/Mathematical Methods; and Statistics & Probability.
Reflecting on his time with the Journal, Professor Abbring said: “It has been a great honour and pleasure to work with so many fine and inspiring econometricians, in their various editorial roles, to improve the publication process in econometrics. Together, we pioneered, as early as 2017, the now-standard reproducibility checks, aimed to publish econometrics that matters to empirical economics, and speeded up the review process by only considering well-focused submissions and avoiding major and multiple revisions. I am very grateful to the Royal Economic Society, which made this all possible with its leadership and high-quality support.”
The Econometrics Journal was established in 1998 by the Royal Economic Society to promote the general advancement and application of econometric methods and techniques to problems of relevance to modern economics.
From 1 May, the Editorial Board will comprise the Editor-in-Chief (formerly known as the Managing Editor), four Editors (previously Co-Editors), the RES Data Editor, and Associate Editors.