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The American Economic Journal is a group of four peer-reviewed academic journals published by the American Economic Association. The names of the individual ... AmericanEconomicJournal FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia Jumptonavigation Jumptosearch AcademicjournalAmericanEconomicJournalDisciplineEconomicsLanguageEnglishPublicationdetailsHistory2009–presentPublisherAmericanEconomicAssociation (UnitedStates)FrequencyQuarterlyStandardabbreviationsISO4(alt) ·Bluebook(alt1 ·alt2)NLM(alt) ·MathSciNet(alt)ISO4Am.Econ.J.IndexingCODEN ·JSTOR(alt) ·LCCN(alt)MIAR ·NLM(alt) ·ScopusAEJ:AppliedEconomicsISSN1945-7782 (print)1945-7790 (web)AEJ:EconomicPolicyISSN1945-7731 (print)1945-774X (web)AEJ:MacroeconomicsISSN1945-7707 (print)1945-7715 (web)AEJ:MicroeconomicsISSN1945-7669 (print)1945-7685 (web)Links Journalhomepage TheAmericanEconomicJournalisagroupoffourpeer-reviewedacademicjournalspublishedbytheAmericanEconomicAssociation.ThenamesoftheindividualjournalsconsistoftheprefixAmericanEconomicJournalwithadescriptorofthefieldattached.Thefourfieldjournalswhichstartedin2009areAppliedEconomics,EconomicPolicy,Macroeconomics,andMicroeconomics. Contents 1History 2AmericanEconomicJournal:AppliedEconomics 3AmericanEconomicJournal:EconomicPolicy 4AmericanEconomicJournal:Macroeconomics 5AmericanEconomicJournal:Microeconomics 6References 7Externallinks History[edit] TheAmericanEconomicAssociationsetupanadhocCommitteeonJournalschairedbyRobertHallwhichinApril2006,afterathree-yearstudyofthesubject,recommendedthattheAmericanEconomicAssociation(AEA)startfournewfieldjournals.Oneofthereasonsgivenwasthatalmostallotheracademicsocietiespublishmorethanthreejournals,andthatbyaddingmorejournals,thediversityofeditorswouldbeincreased.[1]Otherreasonsincludedtheelevatedpricingoffieldjournalsineconomics,mostofwhicharepublishedbyElsevier,andtheinabilityofTheAmericanEconomicReviewtodealwiththelargenumberofsubmissionsitreceived.[2] TherecommendationtopublishthefournewjournalswasapprovedbytheExecutiveCommitteeoftheAEAin2006andthepublicationstartdatewassetin2009.ThepresidentoftheAEAatthetime,GeorgeAkerlof,appointedasearchcommitteesfortheeditorsofthenewjournals. Althoughallfourjournalshaveaquarterlyfrequency,theAmericanEconomicJournal:AppliedEconomicswastheonlyonetohavefourissuesin2009,itsfirstyearofpublication.Theotherthreejournalshadtwoissuesin2009andmovedtofourin2010. AmericanEconomicJournal:AppliedEconomics[edit] Thisjournalpublishespaperscoveringinappliedeconomics,primarilyonempiricalmicroeconomicissues.Fieldsforthisjournalincludelaboreconomics,developmentmicroeconomics,healtheconomics,education,demography,empiricalcorporatefinance,empiricalinternationaltrade,empiricalbehavioraleconomics,andempiricalpoliticaleconomy.Thisjournalhasestablishedanonlinediscussionforumatwhichpublishedarticlescanbecommentedon.EstherDuflowaschosenasthefirsteditor. AmericanEconomicJournal:EconomicPolicy[edit] Thisjournalpublishespapersdealingwitheconomicpolicyanditsroleineconomicoutcomes.Fieldsthatmayfindanoutletinthisjournalincludepubliceconomics,urbaneconomics,healtheconomics,education,welfareandpoliticalinstitutions,lawandeconomics,economicregulation,andenvironmentaleconomics.AlanAuerbachwaschosenasthefirsteditor.HewasfollowedbyMatthewD.Shapiro,thecurrenteditor. AmericanEconomicJournal:Macroeconomics[edit] Thisjournalpublishespapersonmacroeconomics,includingaggregatefluctuationsandgrowth,andpolicyrelatedtothesefields.Fieldsthatmayfindanoutletinthisjournalincludemonetarytheory,industrialorganization,finance,laboreconomics,politicaleconomy,publicfinance,internationaleconomics,anddevelopmenteconomics. OlivierBlanchardwaschosenasthefirsteditor.Heresignedin2009statingthathisdutiesasChiefEconomistoftheInternationalMonetaryFundprovedincompatiblewitheditingthejournalinthecontextofthecurrentfinancialcrisis.[3]HewasreplacedbyStevenJ.Davis.ThecurrenteditorisJohnLeahy. AmericanEconomicJournal:Microeconomics[edit] Thisjournalpublishespapersonmicroeconomictheory.Fieldsthatmayfindanoutletinthisjournalincludeindustrialorganization,internationaltrade,politicaleconomy,andfinance.AndrewPostlewaitewaschosenasthefirsteditor. References[edit] ^"Announcementstatementofthenewjournals,accessedon31August2009".Archivedfromtheoriginalon2008-06-23.Retrieved2009-08-31. ^DavidGlenn."AmericanEconomicAssociationPlans4NewJournals".TheChronicleofHigherEducation.January25,2008.Availableonlineathttp://chronicle.com/article/American-Economic-Association/440 ^OlivierBlanchard."ReportoftheEditor.AmericanEconomicJournal:Macroeconomics",AmericanEconomicReview:Papers&Proceedings,2009,99:2,681–682,doi:10.1257/aer.99.2.681. Externallinks[edit] AEJ:AppliedEconomics AEJ:EconomicPolicy AEJ:Macroeconomics AEJ:Microeconomics Retrievedfrom"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Economic_Journal&oldid=918123472" Categories:EconomicsjournalsPublicationsestablishedin2009English-languagejournalsQuarterlyjournalsAcademicjournalspublishedbylearnedandprofessionalsocietiesoftheUnitedStatesAmericanEconomicAssociationacademicjournalsHiddencategories:ArticleswithshortdescriptionShortdescriptionisdifferentfromWikidataQuarterlyjournals(infobox) Navigationmenu Personaltools NotloggedinTalkContributionsCreateaccountLogin Namespaces ArticleTalk Variants expanded collapsed Views ReadEditViewhistory More expanded collapsed Search Navigation MainpageContentsCurrenteventsRandomarticleAboutWikipediaContactusDonate Contribute HelpLearntoeditCommunityportalRecentchangesUploadfile Tools WhatlinkshereRelatedchangesUploadfileSpecialpagesPermanentlinkPageinformationCitethispageWikidataitem Print/export DownloadasPDFPrintableversion Languages Deutsch Editlinks