The American Economic Review
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| description | Scientific journal of economics |
| language | English |
| First edition | 1911 |
| Frequency of publication | 11x / year (excluding papers and proceedings ) |
| Editor-in-chief | Esther Duflo |
| editor | American Economic Association |
| Web link | website |
| ISSN |
0002-8282 |
The American Economic Review ( AER ) is a monthly scientific journal on economic topics. It is published by the American Economic Association and is considered the world's most respected journal in its field. Only about 7 to 10 percent of the submitted articles are accepted for publication.
history
The AER was first issued in 1911. Among the previous editors was Ben Bernanke . The current editor is Esther Duflo .
Former editors-in-chief
The following economists headed the American Economic Review as editors-in-chief:
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Important essays
In 2011, the Top 20 Committee, consisting of Kenneth Arrow , Douglas Bernheim , Martin Feldstein , Daniel McFadden , James M. Poterba , and Robert Solow , compiled a list of 20 articles that can be considered the most important articles of the AER :
- "A Theory of Production" (1928), by Paul Howard Douglas and Charles Wiggins Cobb .
- "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945), by FA 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 E. Lucas
- "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 .
reception
The magazine ranking VHB-JOURQUAL (2008) places the AER in the best category A + . In the list of journals of the Handelsblatt Ranking VWL (2008), the AER is classified in the best category AA . The magazine ranking of the British Association of Business Schools (2010) places it in the best category 4 * . Another study by the French economists Pierre-Phillippe Combes and Laurent Linnemer ranks the journal in 2nd place in the AAA category.
The American Economic Review's 2012 Impact Factor was 2,792. In the statistics of the Social Sciences Citation Index , the journal was ranked 20th out of 333 journals in the economics category with this impact factor .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Editors of the American Economic Review website of the American Economic Association. Retrieved December 23, 2018
- ↑ Report of the Editor 2008 ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 205 kB)
- ^ KJ Arrow, B. Douglas Bernheim, Martin S Feldstein, Daniel L McFadden, James M Poterba, Robert M Solow: 100 Years of the American Economic Review : The Top 20 Articles . In: American Economic Review . 101, No. 1, 2011, pp. 1-8. doi : 10.1257 / aer.101.1.1 .
- ↑ VHB-JOURQUAL2: Overall ranking of all business studies-relevant journals ( Memento from February 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Handelsblatt Ranking VWL: Journal List 2007 ( Memento from January 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.the-abs.org.uk/?id=257
- ↑ Combes, Pierre-Philippe and Laurent Linnemer, Inferring Missing Citations: A Quantitative Multi-Criteria Ranking of all Journals in Economics . In: GREQAM Document de Travail . No. 2010-28 , 2010, pp. 26-30 (English).
- ^ ISI Web of Knowledge, Journal Citation Reports, Social Sciences Edition, 2013.
