Australian Economic Review
The Australian Economic Review is a peer‑reviewed, quarterly journal publishing rigorous, applied economic analysis with a clear policy focus.
The Australian Economic Review is a peer‑reviewed, quarterly journal publishing rigorous, applied economic analysis with a clear policy focus.
We welcome high‑quality manuscripts that use economic methods to explore pressing macroeconomic and microeconomic issues affecting the Australian economy and the wider Asia–Pacific region.
Online ISSN:1467-8462 | Print ISSN:0004-9018
Meet our editorial team
Professor John de New, Managing Editor
Associate Professor Viet H. Nguyen
Dr Susan J. Méndez
Publish with us
The Australian Economic Review is included in the Social Sciences Citation Index. Our writers benefit from editorial expertise provided by our publisher Wiley, as well as our expert team of peer reviewers. Our readers are economists, policymakers and academics who value and actively access our journal to conduct research that shapes local and international policy.
We publish applied work across a broad set of areas including:
- Macroeconomic policy, fiscal and monetary analysis
- Labour markets and education economics
- Health economics and public health policy
- Industrial organisation, competition and innovation
- Tax policy, public finance and redistribution
- Trade, regional integration and development
Publication formats
We accept several formats to suit different kinds of contributions:
- Contributed Articles — refereed research papers presenting original empirical or theoretical work that addresses economic and social policy questions.
- Policy Forum — timely contributions that analyse and debate major policy issues, aimed at researchers and decision‑makers.
- Data Articles — concise guides to important datasets and their use for research in economics and policy analysis.
- Perspectives — accessible pieces written for practitioners and students that translate research for teaching, training or practice.
Tips for a successful submission
- Clear policy relevance, explaining the implications of your findings for policy, institutions or practice.
- Robust methods and transparent data, providing sufficient detail for replication and, where possible, make data/code available or explain access procedures.
- Write for accessibility and clarity, targeted at an informed, but not necessarily specialist audience.
- Demonstrate how your paper advances knowledge or offers new evidence on an important question.
- For detailed author guidelines, manuscript templates and submission instructions, please consult our journal's submission portal or contact our editorial office via the journal website.