A Century of American Economic Review

By using information collected from numerous American Economic Review publications from the last 100 years, Torgler and Piatti examine the top publishing institutions to determine their most renowned AER papers based on citation success.

Autorentext
Benno Torgler is Professor at the QUT Business School, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and Adjunct Professor at the EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Germany. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts. He is passionate about the sociology of science.

Marco Piatti is a PhD student at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His research is in behavioural and experimental economics, specifically in credence good markets, economics of science, microeconometrics and sportometrics. He received his BBus(Econ) with Distinction in 2010 and his Master by Research (Economics) in 2012 from QUT.

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Introduction PART I: TOP INSTITUTIONS, TOP PAPERS, AND LEADING ECONOMISTS PUBLISHING IN AER 1. Institutional Rankings 2. Country Rankings 3. Top Papers 4. Publishing Frequency 5. Top Authors PART II: COOPERATION, COAUTHORSHIP, AND ALPHABETICAL NAME ORDERING PART III: DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF AER AUTHORS 6. Academic Age 7. Females Publishing in AER PART IV: AER EDITORS, COEDITORS, BOARD MEMBERS AND REFEREES 8. Editors 9. Coeditors 10. Connections between Editors and Coeditors and Citation Success 11. Board of AER Editors PART V: SUBMISSION STRATEGIES, REFEREES, AND AWARDS 12. Submission Strategies and Submitted Papers 13. Referees 14. Awards PART VI: PAPER CHARACTERISTICS 15. Length 16. Subject Areas 17. Level of Technique Conclusion Bibliography Appendix