Regional Named Lectures: Europe and Other Areas

2023 European Meetings

The inaugural ECB European Economic Policy Lecture was delivered by Ricardo Reiss (London School of Economics).
The Laffont Lecture was delivered annually at the European Summer Meeting and was presented in 2023 by Joel Sobel (UCSD).

2022 European Meetings

The Laffont Lecture was delivered at the European Summer Meeting by Emir Kamenica, The University of Chicago

2021 European Meeting

The Laffont Lecture was delivered at the European Summer Meeting by Gianluca Violante, Princeton University

2016 European Meeting

Fisher-Schultz Lecture: Mark Watson, Princeton University, "Long-Run Covariability"
Laffont Lecture: Debraj Ray, New York University, "Development, Distribution and Conflict"
Presidential Lecture: Eddie Dekel, Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University, "Hard Evidence in Mechanism Design and in Games"

2014 European Meeting

Fisher-Schultz Lecture: Randall Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Laffont Lecture: Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago)

Parallel Invited Sessions:
Dynamics of Mergers: Lanier Benkard (Stanford), Volker Nocke (Mannheim)
Macroeconomics: Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard), Kjetil Storesletten (Oslo)
Corporate Finance: Nicola Gennaioli (Bocconi), Marco Ottaviani (Bocconi)
Econometrics: Francesca Molinari (Cornell), Tao Zha (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Dynamic Mechanism Design: Simon Board (UCLA), Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern)
Trade: Philipp Kircher (Edinburgh), Gianmarco Ottaviano (LSE)

2013 European Meeting

Fisher-Schultz Lecture: Larry Samuelson (Yale)
Laffont Lecture: Quang Vuong (New York University)

Parallel Invited Sessions:
Computation of Dynamic Games: Ulrich Doraszelski (UPenn), John Rust (Georgetown)
Macroeconomic Dynamics and Finance: Klaus Adam (Mannheim), Pierre-Olivier Weill (UCLA)
Games and Incentives: Francoise Forges (Paris-Dauphine), Johannes Horner (Yale)
Dynamic Models with Latent Variables: Stephane Bonhomme (CEMFI), Ivana Komunjer (San Diego)
Empirical Timing Games: Aureo de Paula (UCL), Philipp Schmidt-Dengler(Mannheim)
Liquidity: Economics and Empirics: Christine Parlour (Berkeley), Dimitri Vayanos (LSE)

2012 European Meeting

Fisher-Schultz Lecture: Stephen Morris (Princeton)
Laffont Lecture: Pierre-Andre Chiappori

Parallel Invited Sessions:
Network Economics: Andrea Galeotti (Essex), Adam Szeidl (Central European University)
Demand Analysis in Empirical IO: Liran Einav (Stanford), Philip Haile (Yale)
Choice with Bounded Rationality: Botond K}oszegi (Berkeley), Rani Spiegler (Tel Aviv/UCL)
Social Interactions: Bryan Graham (Berkeley), Stephen Durlauf (Winsconsin)
Search and Matching: Jan Eeckhout (UPF), Fabien Postel-Vinay (Bristol)
Forecasting of Macro and Financial Variables: Allan Timmermann (San Diego), Ulrich Muller (Princeton)

2011 European Meeting

Fisher-Schultz Lecture: Susan Athey
Laffont Lecture: Daron Acemoglu

Parallel Invited Sessions
TAE: Mathias Dewatripont, Christian Hellwig, Ilya Segal, Viral Acharya, Dirk Kruger, David Martimort

Parallel Invited Sessions EEE: Don Andrews, John List, Chad Syverson, Oliver Linton, Oriana Bandiera, Frank Verboven

2009 European Meeting

Fisher-Schultz Lecture: Faruk Gul
Laffont Lecture: Guido Imbens

Parallel Invited Sessions TAE: Marco Battaglini, Andrea Prat, Mike Golosov, Laura Veldkamp, Dirk Bergemann, Muhamet Yildiz

Parallel Invited Sessions EEE: Jinyong Hahn, Goeran Kauermann, Federico Bandi, Enno Mammen, Enrico Moretti, Kjell Salvanes

2008 European Meeting

Fisher-Schultz Lecture: Joel Horowitz
Laffont Lecture: Philip Reny

Parallel Invited Sessions TAE: Guiseppe Moscarini, Christopher Pissarides, Benny Moldovanu, Juuso Valimaki, Raj Chetty, Ivan Werning

Parallel Invited Sessions EEE: Victor Chernozhukov, Miguel Delgado, Gerard van den Berg, Michael Keane, Elie Tamer, Quang Vuong

2007 European Meeting

Fisher-Schultz Lecture: Matthew O. Jackson
Laffont Lecture: Eric Renault

Parallel Invited Sessions TAE: Enriqueta Aragones, David Austen-Smith, Maristella Botticini, Sanjeev Goyal, Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Utku Unver

Parallel Invited Sessions EEE: Tim Bollerslev, Robert F. Engle, Serena Ng, Suzanne Schennach, Enrique Sentana, Edward Vytlacil

2006 European Meeting

Fisher-Schultz Lecture: Lars Peter Hansen
Laffont Lecture: Roy Radner

Parallel Invited Sessions TAE: Roland Benabou, Wouter Dessein, Luis Garicano, John List, Thomas Mariotti, Vincenzo Quadrini

Parallel Invited Sessions EEE: Xiaohong Chen, Thierry Magnac, Werner Ploberger, Benedikt Potscher, Peter Robinson, John Rust

2004 European Meeting

Fisher-Schultz Lecture: Paul Milgrom
Review of Economic Studies Lecture: Francois Bourguignon

Parallel Invited Sessions TAE: Bruno Biais, Jacob Goeree, Matt Jackson, Phil Reny, Harald Uhlig, Asher Wolinsky

Parallel Invited Sessions EEE: Christopher Flinn, Javier Hidalgo, Arthur Lewbel, Costas Meghir, R.J. Smith, George Tauchen

2003 European Meeting

Fisher-Schultz Lecture: Charles Manski
Review of Economic Studies Lecture: Kevin Murphy

Parallel Invited Sessions TAE: Faruk Gul, David Martimort, Xavier Vives

Parallel Invited Sessions EEE: Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Guido Imbens, Oliver Linton

2002 European Meeting

Fisher-Schultz Lecture: Douglas Gale
Joint Economic Theory and Econometric Invited Session: Robert Porter

Invited Sessions TAE: Mark Armstrong, Mathias Dewatripont, Benny Moldovanu, Larry Samuelson

Invited Sessions EEE: Neil Shephard, Jean Marc Robin, Manuel Arellano, Andrew Chesher