Аннотация:We are delighted to present this special issue of the Journal of the European Economic Association , in honor of its 20 th anniversary.This is an important milestone in the history of the journal, and an opportunity to reaffirm the standards of rigor and excellence that animate its editorial principles.From its early days, the founders of the JEEA embraced the strictest of criteria for selecting papers that advance the frontier of economic science, with the explicit goal of making the JEEA a "top six" journal-or better!The standing attained by the journal in its first twenty years owes to the vision of its founders-prominent leaders of the
