The current editor-in-chief is Erzo FP Luttmer, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College.

[2] In 2004, the American Economic Review began requiring "data and code sufficient to permit replication" of a paper's results, which is then posted on the journal's website.

Every issue of the Bulletin contained a section "Personal and Miscellaneous Notes" and a number of book reviews.

Its header read "Formerly published under the title of Publications of the American Economic Association and the numbering continued as third series, volumes 9 to 11.

In 2011 a "Top 20 Committee", consisting of Kenneth Arrow, Douglas Bernheim, Martin Feldstein, Daniel McFadden, James M. Poterba, and Robert Solow, selected the following twenty articles to be the most important ones to appear in the journal:[12] Thirteen of those authors have received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.