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2012 Annual Meeting Webcasts

View Webcasts of selected sessions from the Annual Meeting on January 6-8, 2012:

The Euro: Challenges to Improve a Currency Union

The Political Economy of U.S. Debt and Deficits

Markets with Frictions

What Happened to the U.S. Employment Miracle

ASSA 2012
Dale Mortensen, Peter Diamond, & Philipp Kircher from the "Markets with Frictions" Panel

Best Paper Prize Nominations


The AEA is seeking nominations for each of the four AEJs. Prizes will be announced in April 2012, selected from articles published in 2009, 2010, and 2011 of each AEJ. The deadline for nominations is February 15, 2012.

Announcements

At its meeting on January 5, the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association adopted extensions to its principles for authors' disclosures of potential conflicts of interest in the AEA's publications.

See the Press Release.
Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims have been named as co-recipients of the 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The prize recognizes their contributions to "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy." Chris Sims is President-elect of the AEA and will become President in January 2012. Tom Sargent served as President of the Association in 2007.
Committee on Economic Education (CEE):

CEE will co-sponsor a Conference on "Teaching Economics and Research in Economic Education" with the Journal of Economic Education and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. To be held in Boston, May 30 - June 1, 2012.

Registration for the conference will open on March 1, 2012.

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Contents of Current Issues

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

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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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