Articles published by the REEP are generally commissioned by the editors, but are still typically subjected to anonymous peer review.

Given the requirement that material appearing in the journal should be written for a non-technical audience and be highly readable, the submission of unsolicited manuscripts is not encouraged.

Speculative preparation of an article thus represents more of a gamble that usual in the world of economics journals.

Instead, the editors welcome proposals for topics and authors, so that the suitability of potential contributions can be considered carefully in advance.

AERE and the editors of REEP hope that this new journal will evolve to continually reflect the interests and the changing needs of the worldwide membership of the AERE, as well as REEP's broader constituency of interested but non-specialist readers.