A Century of American Economic Review

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   • Benno Torgler, Marco Piatti

   Pages 1-11

3. Top Institutions, Top Papers and Leading Economists Publishing in AER

   • Benno Torgler, Marco Piatti

   Pages 12-34

4. Cooperation, Coauthorship and Alphabetical Name Ordering

   • Benno Torgler, Marco Piatti

   Pages 35-41

5. Demographic Characteristics of AER Authors

   • Benno Torgler, Marco Piatti

   Pages 42-56

6. AER Editors, Coeditors, and Board Members

   • Benno Torgler, Marco Piatti

   Pages 57-80

7. Submission Strategies, Referees, and Awards

   • Benno Torgler, Marco Piatti

   Pages 81-92

8. Paper Characteristics

   • Benno Torgler, Marco Piatti

   Pages 93-114

9. Conclusion

   • Benno Torgler, Marco Piatti

   Pages 115-123

10. Back Matter

    Pages 124-154

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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.

• cooperation
• demography
• information
• institutions
• publishing
• Ranking
• success

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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