City, University of London de São Paulo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Politecnico di Milano, University of Delhi, Northeastern University Boston and Tongji University. City was selected as the sole British university to take part in the selective Erasmus Mundus MULTI programme, funded by the European Commission to promote scientific exchange between Europe and the industrialised countries of South-East Asia. It is the first Erasmus program to involve universities outside of Europe. In addition to City, the partner universities are: Aix-Marseille University (France), Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Czech Republic), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universität des Saarlandes (Germany),
The Review of Economic Studies of Oslo). The current editors-in-chief are Jerome Adda (Bocconi University), Aureo de Paula (University College London), Nicola Gennaioli (Bocconi University), Gita Gopinath (Harvard University), Christian Hellwig (University of Toulouse), Botond Koszegi (Central European University), Uta Schoenberg (University College London), and Michèle Tertilt (University of Mannheim). According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 4.038, ranking it 6th out of 333 journals in the category "Economics". The journal was founded in 1933. From the beginning, the board of editors has operated independently of any university department or learned society. The founding document of the journal