The American Economic Review (AER) is a quarterly journal of economics published by the American Economic Association. First published in 1911, it is considered one of the most prestigious journals in the field. The current editor is Robert A. Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University. The previous editor was Ben Bernanke.

The following well-known articles were first published in the AER:

• The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment (1958), by Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller.
• De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum (1977), by George Stigler and Gary Becker

Economics journals