Economic Theory is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 that focuses on theoretical economics, particularly social choice, general equilibrium theory, and game theory

Game theory

Game theory is a mathematical method for analyzing calculated circumstances, such as in games, where a person’s success is based upon the choices of others...

. Mathematically rigorous articles are also published in the fields of experimental economics

Experimental economics

Experimental economics is the application of experimental methods to study economic questions. Data collected in experiments are used to estimate effect size, test the validity of economic theories, and illuminate market mechanisms. Economic experiments usually use cash to motivate subjects, in...

, public economics, international economics

International economics

International economics is concerned with the effects upon economic activity of international differences in productive resources and consumer preferences and the institutions that affect them...

, development economics

Development economics

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, and industrial organisation.

The journal is the official journal of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory

Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory

The Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory abbreviated as SAET is a non-profit membership society founded to "advance knowledge in theoretical economics and to facilitate communication among researchers." Membership includes economists, mathematicians, game theorists, and other...

. Both the society and the journal were founded by Charalambos D. Aliprantis

Charalambos D. Aliprantis

Charalambos Dionisios Aliprantis was a Greek-American economist who introduced Banach space and Riesz space methods in economic theory. He was born in Cefalonia, Greece in 1946 and came to the US in 1969, where he obtained his PhD in Mathematics from Caltech in June 1973.He was a distinguished...

, Nobel Laureate

Nobel Prize

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 Edward C. Prescott

Edward C. Prescott

Edward Christian Prescott is an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles"...

, and Nicholas C. Yannelis

Nicholas C. Yannelis

Nicholas C. Yannelis is the current editor of Economic Theory. He obtained his PhD at the University of Rochester under the direction of Lionel McKenzie. He is also the Commerce Distinguished Alumni Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Sir John Hicks...

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At its inception, the journal only published quarterly, but in recent years it has begun to release issues monthly, with 3 issues constituting a volume.