AEJ: Macroeconomics is the American Economic Association's field home for macro one tier below AER's general-interest bar. It publishes macro, monetary, growth, and business-cycle research — both quantitative/structural models (DSGE, HANK, heterogeneous-agent and quantitative frameworks) and empirical macro. The contribution can be field-specific rather than discipline-wide, but the model discipline or empirical identification must be top-quality; this is the natural home for serious macro that is excellent but narrower than a top-5 swing.
