About Ledger

What this is

Ledger tracks forthcoming papers in macroeconomics and monetary economics and publishes a faithful two-layer summary of each one. The goal is a fast path from “something new is out” to “I understand what it actually claims and how confident I should be.”

How summaries are made

Every summary goes through the same pipeline:

1. Metadata pulled from APIs. Bibliographic fields (title, authors, journal, DOI, links) come from Crossref and OpenAlex — never guessed or filled in by a model.
2. Source text identified. The source_text_origin field on each paper records whether the summary was built from the full manuscript, the open-access HTML, or the abstract only. Layer 2 is constrained to what that source actually says.
3. Two-layer summary drafted. Layer 1 is a plain-language preview carrying the load-bearing qualifiers. Layer 2 is a Q&A that goes as deep as faithful coverage requires.
4. Claim-grounding review. Every claim must be traceable to a source span. Ungrounded claims block publication.
5. Human approval. No summary reaches the live site without passing the review gate and a human merge decision.

Journals covered

Whitelist (all papers): Journal of Monetary Economics · Journal of Money, Credit and Banking · Journal of Macroeconomics · Macroeconomic Dynamics · Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control · Review of Economic Dynamics · American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics · Journal of Economic Growth

Filter (macro/monetary papers only): American Economic Review · Econometrica · Journal of Political Economy · Quarterly Journal of Economics · Review of Economic Studies · AER: Insights · The Economic Journal

Corrections

Found an error or a misrepresentation? The flag link on each paper page goes directly to the right place. Corrections from authors are especially welcome.