The American Economic Review (AER) is a general-interest economics journal. Established in 1911, the AER is among the nation's oldest and most respected scholarly journals in economics.

American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) is a general-interest economics journal publishing papers of the same quality and importance as those in the AER but devoted to papers with important insights that can be conveyed succinctly.

The Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), first published in 1969, is designed to help economists keep abreast of and synthesize the vast flow of literature.

The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) fills the gap between the general interest press and academic economics journals.

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics publishes papers covering a range of topics in applied economics, with a focus on empirical microeconomic issues.

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy publishes papers covering a range of topics, the common theme being the role of economic policy in economic outcomes.

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics focuses on studies of aggregate fluctuations and growth and the role of policy in that context.

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics publishes papers focusing on microeconomic theory; industrial organization; and the microeconomic aspects of international trade, political economy, and finance.

AEA Papers and Proceedings, published once a year, contains AEA proceedings and selected papers presented at the AEA sessions of the ASSA Annual Meeting.