About the Journal
Aims and scope
The Economics Student Inquiry (ESI) is an open-access online journal of the University of Alberta Economics Students' Association (ESA). ESI aims to provide undergraduate and graduate students with a platform to publish their research papers, course projects, case studies, term papers, and research assignments. Publications in ESI will be accessible to a broader audience and help students showcase their research skills. ESI covers a broad range of topics in economic theory and applied economics, including:
Environmental Economics
Health Economics
Labour Economics
Industrial Economics
Public Economics
Energy Economics
Economic Development
Law and Economics
International Trade
International Finance
Monetary Economics
Money and Banking
Financial Markets
Open Access Statement
ESI is a diamond open-access journal that provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports the greater global exchange of knowledge.
Authors will never be charged to submit or publish a manuscript through Economics Student Inquiry, and all articles will be made available under a Creative Commons license, as indicated in the Copyright Notice section under the Submissions Guidelines.
Academic Misconduct Policy
ESI takes violations of Academic Integrity very seriously. The editors of ESI will take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, AI-generated text, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. In the event that the editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article in their journal, the editor shall follow the Committee on Publication Ethics’s guidelines in dealing with allegations. Authors are expected to be familiar with these standards regarding academic honesty and to uphold the policies of the University of Alberta in this respect. Authors are particularly urged to familiarize themselves with the Code of Student Behaviour provisions. The University of Alberta’s Code of Student Behaviour describes plagiarism in the following words:
30.3.2(1) Plagiarism: No Student shall submit the words, ideas, images, or data of another person as the student’s own in any academic writing, essay, thesis, project, assignment, presentation, or poster in a course or program of study.
It is essential to understand four essential points in this definition.
- Any time you submit a paper with your name on it, it is presumed to have been generated entirely by you unless you indicate otherwise.
- Any content you use that you did not generate yourself (ideas, graphics, photographs, charts, statistics, etc.) must be cited.
- Use of copyrighted material, including figures, illustrations, charts, tables, photographs, and text excerpts, is prohibited. The exception to this rule is the case where written permission is obtained from the copyright holder, typically the publisher.
- Paying someone to write a paper is plagiarism. Similarly, submitting work created by generative AI would also constitute plagiarism, as defined above. The editor reserves the right to use tools in order to determine AI content in the submitted articles.
Digital Archiving Policy
ESI is archived with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Preservation Network and Scholars Portal Journals. These programs offer decentralized and distributed preservation, perpetual access, and preservation of the authentic original version of the content.
