Econ-Harmony

An AEA Service for Organizing Complete Annual Meeting Session Proposals

Econ-Harmony is now closed. Econ-Harmony for ASSA 2021 will open on February 1st, 2020.

An AEA service, Econ-Harmony began in 2009 and continued in 2019 for the 2020 Annual Meeting program. Econ-Harmony allows prospective individual paper submitters who are members of the AEA to post information about their paper and search for others with similar interests who might join them to form a complete session submission. It also allows AEA members to volunteer to chair sessions.

COMPLETE SESSIONS HAVE A SUBSTANTIALLY GREATER CHANCE OF MAKING THE PROGRAM THAN INDIVIDUAL PAPERS.

21% of 507 submitted complete sessions and 10% of 1,606* submitted individual papers made the 2020 AEA Annual Meeting program.

**Individual Paper Submissions**
Program Year	Total Accepted
2020	10% of 1606*
2019	10% of 1227*
2018	9% of 1342*
2017	16% of 1208*
2016	12% of 1728
2015	17% of 1303
2014	14% of 1148
2013	12% of 1331
2012	16% of 1059
2011	17% of 897
2010	13% of 1404

**Complete Session Submissions**
Program Year	Total Accepted
2020	21% of 507
2019	32% of 314
2018	27% of 412
2017	28% of 398
2016	25% of 461
2015	25% of 401
2014	25% of 438
2013	31% of 347
2012	31% of 331
2011	39% of 287
2010	31% of 273

* Plus an additional 24% of 1208 individually submitted papers participated in the 2017 AEA Poster Session.
Plus an additional 23% of 1342 individually submitted papers participated in the 2018 AEA Poster Session.
Plus an additional 28% of 1227 individually submitted papers participated in the 2019 AEA Poster Session.
Plus an additional 16% of 1606 individually submitted papers participated in the 2020 AEA Poster Session

Econ-Harmony does not replace the formal submission process and it does not guarantee that a session will be included on the program. Rather, it is designed to help prospective authors identify others working on similar questions so they can form a jointly organized complete session to submit in the regular submission process. The normal submitted session includes four papers and a discussant for each.