The American Economic Review

The American Economic Review  

|Subject |Discipline}}	Economics
Language	English
Edited by	Esther Duflo
Publication details
History	1911–present
Publisher	American Economic Association
Frequency	Monthly
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Am. Econ. Rev.
Indexing CODEN · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0002-8282
LCCN	11007619
JSTOR	00028282
OCLC no.	847300958
Links
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The American Economic Review is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Economic Association. First published in 1911, it is considered one of the most prestigious and highly distinguished journals in the field of economics.^[1][2][3] The current editor-in-chief is Esther Duflo (MIT). The journal is based in Pittsburgh.^[4]

In 2004, the American Economic Review began requiring "data and code sufficient to permit replication" of a paper's results, which is then posted on the journal's website. Exceptions are made for proprietary data.^[5]

Until 2017, the May issue of the American Economic Review, titled the Papers and Proceedings issue, featured the papers presented at the American Economic Association's annual meeting that January. After being selected for presentation, the papers in the Papers and Proceedings issue did not undergo a formal process of peer review.^[6][7][8][9] Starting in 2018, papers presented at the annual meetings have been published in a separate journal, AEA Papers and Proceedings, which is released annually in May.^[10]

Notable papers

In 2011 a "Top 20 Committee," consisting of Kenneth Arrow, Douglas Bernheim, Martin Feldstein, Daniel McFadden, James M. Poterba, and Robert Solow, selected the following twenty articles to be the most important ones to appear in the journal:^[11]

• "A Theory of Production" (1928), by Paul Douglas and Charles Cobb.
• "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945), by F. A. Hayek
• "Economic Growth and Income Inequality" (1955), by Simon Kuznets.
• "The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment" (1958), by Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller.
• "A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas" (1961), by Robert Mundell.
• "Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care" (1963), by Kenneth Arrow.
• "Capital Theory and Investment Behavior" (1963), by Dale W. Jorgenson
• "National Debt in a Neoclassical Growth Model" (1965), by Peter A. Diamond.
• "The Role of Monetary Policy" (1968), by Milton Friedman.
• "Migration, Unemployment and Development: A Two-Sector Analysis" (1970), by John R. Harris and Michael Todaro.
• "Optimal Taxation and Public Production I: Production Efficiency" and "Optimal Taxation and Public Production II: Tax Rules" (1971), by Peter A. Diamond and James Mirrlees.
• "Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization" (1972), by Armen Alchian and Harold Demsetz.
• "Some International Evidence on Output-Inflation Tradeoffs" (1973), by Robert Lucas, Jr.
• "The Economic Theory of Agency: The Principal’s Problem" (1973), by Stephen A. Ross.
• "The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society" (1974), by Anne Osborn Krueger
• "Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity" (1977), by Avinash Dixit and Joseph Stiglitz.
• "An Almost Ideal Demand System" (1980), by Angus Deaton and John Muellbauer.
• "On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets" (1980), by Sanford J. Grossman and Joseph E. Stiglitz.
• "Scale Economies, Product Differentiation, and the Pattern of Trade" (1980), by Paul Krugman.
• "Do Stock Prices Move Too Much to Be Justified by Subsequent Changes in Dividends?" (1981), by Robert J. Shiller.

Thirteen of those authors have received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

The journal can be accessed online via JSTOR. In both 2006 and 2007, it was the most widely viewed journal of all the 775 journals in JSTOR.^[12]

Other notable papers

Other notable papers from the journal include:

• "Colonial origins of comparative development" (2001), by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson.
• "Growth in a Time of Debt" (May 2010), by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, published in the Papers and Proceedings issue^[9]
• "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation," by Katharine Coman. This was the first article that appeared in the journal, and was reprinted in 2011 due to its continuing significance.

References

External links

• 1911-1922 volumes available online at the Online Books Page

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