The American Economic Review


The American Economic Review is a general-interest economics journal. Established in 1911, the AER is among the nation's oldest and most respected scholarly journals in the economics profession and is celebrating over 100 years of publishing! The journal publishes 6 issues containing articles on a broad range of topics as well as the Papers and Proceedings issue in May, which presents selected papers from the AEA's annual meeting along with the reports of officers and committees.

Current Issue: Volume 103, Issue 2, April 2013

The American Economic Review's special edition centenary issue—Volume 101, Issue 1, February 2011—highlights the top 20 articles published in the journal during its first 100 years. (Press Release)


Special Announcement to Authors:
 Effective July 1, 2012

Beginning July 1, 2012, all submissions to AEA journals, including revisions of previously submitted papers, must be accompanied by a Disclosure Statement. This is applicable even when the authors have no relevant interests to disclose. Authors will need to provide a separate Disclosure Statement for each coauthor at the time of submission. Submissions that do not include the statements will be considered incomplete and will not be reviewed. Please see the complete Disclosure Policy.


Editorial Staff

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
Yale University
Editor

Marianne Bertrand,
University of Chicago
Martin Eichenbaum,
Northwestern University
Hilary Hoynes,
University of California, Davis
Luigi Pistaferri,
Stanford University
Debraj Ray,
New York University
Larry Samuelson,
Yale University
Andrzej Skrzypacz,
Stanford University
Coeditors

Steve Stelling
Managing Editor

Kelly Markel
Assistant Managing Editor

Samantha Bennett
Copyeditor

Matthew Roberson
Senior Editorial Assistant

Emilee Stanford
Editorial Assistant

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Correspondence Regarding Submissions:

AER EDITORIAL OFFICE:
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Pittsburgh, PA 15203

Phone: 412-432-2300
Fax: 412-431-3014
Email: info "at" aerjournal.org

Papers and Proceedings Editors:
William R. Johnson, University of Virginia
Samantha Bennett, American Economic Review

Papers and Proceedings Correspondence:
Phone: 412-432-5738
Email: pandp "at" aerjournal.org

AER Board of Editors

Mark Aguiar
Pol Antràs
Sandra Black
Simon Board
Craig Burnside
Ariel Burstein
Steven Callander
Gary Charness
Sylvain Chassang
Dora Costa
Miguel Costa-Gomes
Dirk Engelmann
Hanming Fang
Timothy Feddersen
Michael Fishman
William Fuchs
Gautam Gowrisankaran
David Green
Veronica Guerrieri
Igal Hendel
Ali Hortaçsu
Shachar Kariv
Navin Kartik
Brian Knight
Botond Kőszegi
Ilan Kremer
Arvind Krishnamurthy
Jonathan Levin
Gilat Levy
Hamish Low
Shelly Lundberg
Matthew Mitchell
Dilip Mookherjee
Giuseppe Moscarini
Philip Oreopoulos
Rohini Pande
Jonathan Parker
Parag Pathak
Nina Pavcnik
Fabrizio Perri
Ricardo Reis
Jesse Rothstein
Fiona Scott Morton
Rajiv Sethi
Jón Steinsson
Amir Sufi
Christopher Timmins
Sarah Turner
Eric Verhoogen
Lise Vesterlund
Leeat Yariv

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Announcements!

Luigi Pistaferri assumed coeditorship January 6, 2012.

"Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy," by Nicholas Muller, Robert Mendelsohn, and William Nordhaus, has been in high demand since its August 2011 publication. To encourage continued discussion, the AEA is proud to make this article complimentary through our website: [Full-Text Article][Executive Summary]

"Automobiles on Steroids: Product Attribute Trade-Offs and Technological Progress in the Automobile Sector," by Christopher R. Knittel, has received a considerable amount of pay per view activity since its appearance in the December 2011 AER. To encourage continued discussion, the AEA is proud to make this article complimentary through our website: [Full-Text Article][Executive Summary]

A special report of data replication of papers published in the AER is now available.

Andrzej Skrzypacz assumed coeditorship October 1, 2011.

Debraj Ray assumed coeditorship August 1, 2011.

Marianne Bertrand assumed coeditorship July 1, 2011.

The coeditors of the AER would like to acknowledge our Excellence in Refereeing Award recipients!

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