Published/Hosted by: The American Economic Association
ISSN: 0002-8282
Country: United States
About Journal
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 currently celebrating 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.
Submission Process
Submit manuscripts in PDF format online at: aeraccept@aeapubs.org
General Guidelines for Authors
Each file name should clearly indicate if the file is a “manuscript,” “data,” “appendix,” “figures,” or “additional materials.” Each filename should contain the manuscript number (which should also be included in the subject line of the e-mail).
Authors submitting in Word are required to use the following format:
• Double-Spacing;
• 12-Point Times New Roman font;
• 1-inch (2.5-cm) side, top, and bottom margins.
• Please, also, ensure that the file is not encrypted.
• If applicable, please send, EPS or PPT versions of your figures.
• It is preferable to send each “group” of files (if there is more than one file for data, figures, additional materials, etc.) as a .zip file (for example, 20030002_data.zip or 20030002_addmaterials.zip).
• Please use underscores instead of spaces when creating file names.
• In addition, appendices must be sent in PDF format (for example, 20030002_appendix.pdf or 2002002_finalpaper.pdf).
• All datasets must include a PDF “Read me” file (clearly labeled, for example, ReadMe.pdf) containing a list of all files included and guiding a user on the types of files and how to use them to do replication. The PDF “Read Me” file should be included in the .zip file containing the dataset.
• For datasets that are too large to send by e-mail, we make available the option of uploading large files to our FTP server. Please contact Jenna (jenna@aeapubs.org ) for instructions on accessing the FTP server.
References
The journal uses the Chicago
The following examples are intended to provide information for less common sources.
For periodicals
Romer, Christina D., and David H. Romer. 2010. “The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks: Dataset.” American Economic Review. http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.100.3.763.
For Working Papers
Ausubel, Lawrence M. 1997. “An Efficient Ascending-Bid Auction for Multiple Objects.” University of Maryland
Heidhues, Paul, and Botond Kőszegi. 2005. “The Impact of Consumer Loss Aversion on Pricing.” Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper 4849.
Unpublished Papers
Zitzewitz, Eric. 2006. “How Widespread Was Late Trading in Mutual Funds?” http://facultygsb.stanford.edu/zitzewitz.
Lectures and Papers Presented at Meetings
Romer, Christina D., and David H. Romer. 2006. “The Evolution of Economic Understanding and Postwar Stabilization Policy.” Paper presented at the Rethinking Stabilization Policy Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas Symposium, Jackson Hole , WY
Newspapers, Online Encyclopedias, and Reference Works
Becker, Gary S. 1993. “The Evidence against Blacks Doesn’t Prove Bias.” Business Week, April 19. http://bwarchive.businessweek.com/index.jsp.
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