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February 2012 AEJ: Micro

February 2012 AEJ: Policy

January 2012 AEJ: Macro

January 2012 AEJ: Applied

December 2011 JEL

December 2011 AER

Fall 2011 JEP

Virtual Field Journals

AEA in the News:

"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]

The Economist features the AER in an article titled "The canon of economics: The best journal in the discipline picks its best papers."

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]

American Economic Association Adds Three Years of Online Access for Subscribers: The American Economic Association (AEA) is pleased to announce that it has added three earlier years of online access to the American Economic Review (AER), Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), and Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) for its online institutional subscribers."

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Econ-Harmony: An AEA Service for Organizing Complete Annual Meeting Session Proposals


Econ-Harmony is closed for 2012 Conference Submissions.
Econ-Harmony for the 2013 conference will open on February 12, 2012.

Econ-Harmony: An AEA Service for Organizing Complete Annual Meeting Session Proposals.


An AEA service, Econ-Harmony began in 2009 and continued in 2010. It continues in 2011 for the 2012 Annual Meetings program. Econ-Harmony allows prospective individual paper submitters who are members of the AEA to post information about their paper and search for others with similar interests who might join them to form a complete session submission. It also allows AEA members to volunteer to chair sessions.

Of papers listed on Econ-Harmony for the 2010 and 2011 Meetings, 112 were submitted to the AEA program as individual papers, and 91 were submitted as part of a complete session. Of those submitted as part of a complete session, 15% made the program; of those submitted individually, 9 % made the program. The Program Committee had no knowledge of which papers had been listed on Econ-Harmony when they decided which papers and sessions made the program.

COMPLETE SESSIONS HAVE A SUBSTANTIALLY GREATER CHANCE OF MAKING THE PROGRAM THAN INDIVIDUAL PAPERS.  31% of 273 submitted complete sessions and 13% of 1404 submitted individual papers made it onto the 2010 AEA Annual Meeting Program; 39% of 287 submitted complete sessions and 17 percent of 897 submitted individual papers made it onto the 2011 AEA Annual Meeting Program.

Econ-Harmony does not replace the formal submission process and it does not guarantee that a session will be included on the program. Rather, it is designed to help prospective authors identify others working on similar questions so they can form a jointly organized complete session to submit in the regular submission process. The normal submitted session includes four papers and a discussant for each. The submission portal for the 2012 annual AEA meeting opens March 1, 2011; individual paper submission closed on April 1, 2011 and complete session submission closed April 15, 2011.