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Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee San Diego, CA January 3, 2013 American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 2013, 103(3): 692–700 http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.3.692 Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee San Diego, CA January 3, 2013 The second meeting of the 2012 Executive Report on the Annual Meetings Rousseau . Committee was called to order by President Rousseau reviewed the schedule of future( meet)- Christopher Sims at 10:00 a.m. on January 3, ings: Philadelphia, January 3–5, 2014 Friday, 2013 in the Gregory Room of the Manchester Saturday, and Sunday ; Boston, January( 3–5, Grand Hyatt San Diego. Members present 2015 Saturday, Sunday,) and Monday ; San were: Orley Ashenfelter, Alan Auerbach, Francisco,( January 3–5, 2016 Sunday, Monday,) David Autor, Janet Currie, Penny Goldberg, Tuesday ; Chicago, January 6–8,( 2017 Friday, Claudia Goldin, Jonathan Gruber, Robert Hall, Saturday,) and Sunday ; Atlanta, January( Anil Kashyap, John Leahy, Rosa Matzkin, 5–7, 2018 Friday, Saturday,) and Sunday ; Christina Paxson by telephone , Monika Philadelphia,( January 4–6, 2019 Friday,) Piazzesi, Andrew Postlewaite,( Valerie) Ramey, Saturday, and Sunday , and San Diego, January( Nancy Rose by telephone , Peter Rousseau, 3–5, 2020 Friday, Saturday,) and Sunday . Christopher Sims,( and Michael) Woodford. Registration( for the 2013 meetings )in San Also attending were: William Nordhaus, newly Diego was 11,408. The peaks since 1970 elected President-Elect; Raquel Fernandez and were 11,624 in Chicago 2012 , 10,829( in San) Paul Milgrom, newly elected Vice-Presidents; Francisco 2009 , 9,908 in( Denver) 2011 , and and Amy Finkelstein and Jonathan Levin, 9,483 in Atlanta( ) 2010 ; the number( of )hotel newly elected Executive Committee mem- rooms booked on( the )peak night reached an bers. Attending parts of the meeting to give all-time high of 7,439 for San Diego, in contrast reports were: Henry Farber, Chair of the Ad to 7,203 peak night rooms in Chicago, 6,651 in Hoc Committee for Institutional Review Board Denver, and 6,739 in Atlanta. Implementation, Marjorie McElroy, Chair Rousseau reported that he and Convention of the Committee on the Status of Women Manager Marlene Hight are investigating sev- in the Economics Profession, Robert Moffitt eral sites for future meetings, including Boston and Dan Newlon, Chair and Washington 2021 and San Antonio 2022 , and will make Representive of the Committee on Government (recommendations) to the (Executive) Committee Relations, James Poterba, Chair of the Ad Hoc in April 2013 or January 2014. San Antonio Search Committee for Editor of the Journal has the hotel space to hold the meeting, but of Economic Literature by telephone , and the availability of airline seats and nonstop Cecilia Rouse and Gary (Hoover, Chair) and flights in and out of San Antonio within the co-Chair of the Committee on the Status of typically short period of time needed for the Minority Groups in the Economics Profession. meetings is a concern. Rousseau and Hight Assistant Secretary-Treasurer John Siegfried, will also visit Philadelphia February to secure General Counsel Terry Calvani, and staff mem- additional rooms for the 2014 meeting at the bers Mary Kay Akerman, Michelle DeBlasi, block rate. Elizabeth Braunstein, Marlene Hight, Regina To reduce excess demand for the headquar- Montgomery, Steve Stelling, and Jane Voros ters hotel, the Association continued to charge also attended. an extra $25 per night for rooms there. This Sims welcomed the newly elected members generated $114,000 that is treated as registra- of the 2013 Executive Committee and noted tion fees. It did not eliminate excess demand that this was the final meeting for Hall, Paxson, as the headquarters hotel still sold out in two Rose, Gruber, and Ramey. He thanked them for days. Given the positive net surplus from the their service. The minutes of the April 27, 2012 2012 meeting, it may be prudent to lower meeting were then approved as written. the registration fees for the 2014 meetings and 692 VOL. 103 NO. 3 MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COmmITTEE 693 consider a higher premium for rooms in the Morris, Thomas Nechyba, and David Scarfstein headquarters. to three-year terms on the Board of Editors end- Report of the Editor of the American ing in December 2015. Economic Review Goldberg . Goldberg Report of the Editor of the Journal of referred to her written report,( published) in the Economic Perspectives Autor . Autor referred 2013 Supplemental Proceedings. She reported to his report, which is (published) in the 2013 that submissions were stable in 2012 following Supplemental Proceedings. He thanked an 11 percent increase in 2011, when the AER Managing Editor Tim Taylor and Assistant expanded to six regular issues per year. She Editor Ann Norman for their help in publishing noted that the current team of eight co-editors the Journal. kept the workload manageable, with most Autor reported that more than 115,000 JEP manuscripts receiving a first decision within articles were downloaded in the United States in three months and few manuscripts taking longer the past year and more than 152,000 outside of than six months. The AER published 130 papers the United States. He attributed this to the recent in 2012, a 7 percent increase over 2011. The policy of making all issues of the JEP since its number of weeks from acceptance to publica- inception freely available on the AEA website tion fell to 54 in 2012 from 61 in 2011. Goldberg and to e-mail blasts announcing new issues. He also reported that the new disclosure policy noted that the effectiveness of an experiment requiring authors to provide a statement identi- started in 2012 to increase reader awareness of fying potential financial conflicts at the time of the JEP by sending a postcard mailing of the submission was implemented smoothly on July JEP’s table of contents to Association members 1, 2012. in half of the US states is still under evaluation. A discussion ensued about backlog at the He reported that JEP issues are now available journal and the possibility of adding staff to in PDF, Amazon Kindle, and Barnes & Noble increase the throughput of articles. The possibil- Nook formats. Autor also noted that nearly ity of expanding the AER to a monthly format 20 percent of articles published in 2012 origi- to increase capacity and readability was also nated as unsolicited proposals, and that efforts discussed. Goldberg agreed to consider these have been made to make this fact known to the possibilities and report back to the Executive membership. Committee in April 2013. Acting on Autor’s recommendation, it was Following Goldberg’s recommendation, VOTED to appoint Ulrike Malmendier to a it was VOTED to reappoint Pol Antras to a three-year term as co-editor, and to appoint three-year term on the Board of Editors and Christopher Udry and Adam Looney to three- to appoint Ariel Burstein, Sylvain Chassang, year terms as Associate Editors ending in Timothy Feddersen, Brian Knight, and Philip December 2015. Oreopoulos to initial three-year terms on the Report of the Editor of the American Board of Editors, all ending in December 2015. Economic Journal: Applied Economics Report of the Editor of the Journal of Goldberg for Esther Duflo . Goldberg referred Economic Literature Currie . Currie reviewed to( Duflo’s written report, )which is published in her written report, which( is) published in the the 2013 Supplemental Proceedings. She noted 2013 Supplemental Proceedings. She noted that that the Journal received a record 471 first sub- her term as editor ends on July 1, 2013 and that missions for the year ending October 31, 2012, longer term issues that her successor will face up 23 percent from the previous year, while turn- include evaluating the role of short book reviews around averaged 39 days to first decision with given that Associate Editor James Levinsohn all decisions made within three months. Acting will step down at the end of the year. on Duflo’s recommendation, it was VOTED to Acting on Currie’s recommendation, it was appoint Matthew Gentzkow and Alexandre Mas VOTED to reappoint Serena Ng to an additional to three-year terms on the Board of Editors of one-year term on the Board of Editors end- AEJ: Applied ending in December 2015. ing in December 2013. It was also VOTED to Report of the Editor of the American appoint Tilman Börgers, Steven Durlauf, Raquel Economic Journal: Economic Policy Fernandez, Price Fishback, Ann Harrison, Auerbach . Auerbach referred to his written Kenneth Hendricks, David Lam, Stephen report,( published) in the 2013 Supplemental 694 AEA PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS MAY 2013 Proceedings. He noted that he would be step- on the Board of Editors of AEJ: Micro ending ping down as editor of the journal at the end in December 2015. of 2013. He reported that the journal received Report on the Econlit and the JEL 375 submissions in 2012, up 27 percent from Classification System Rousseau . Rousseau the previous year, and that adding a second referred to the written report( of Steven) Husted, co-editor specializing in health economics had Manager of Econlit Product Content and been useful in handling the increased through- Design, noting that this was the first year in put. He also noted that although the backlog had which the report on Econlit and the JEL clas- increased, publishing several larger issues had sification system had been decoupled from the helped to keep it in check. He also noted that the report of the JEL editor. He reported that the AEJ: Policy receives relatively fewer submis- JEL classifying group in the Pittsburgh office sions transferred from the AER than the other had identified 12 new JEL categories at their lat- AEJ journals, and that the journal continues est meeting in August 2012.
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