2016 Election of Officers and Council

 

We are pleased to announce the results of the 2016 Election of Officers and Council.

Drew Fudenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been elected President.

Timothy Besley, London School of Economics, has been elected First Vice-President.

Stephen Morris, Princeton University, has been elected Second Vice-President. He will be First Vice-President in 2018,…

2016 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

The Society proudly congratulates Oliver Hart (Econometric Society Fellow and Council member 1983-89; 1994-98), and its 73rd President, Bengt Holmström, for receiving the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on contracts. Bengt Holmström was the Fisher-Schultz Lecturer in 1997 and Oliver Hart in 1988.

Oliver…

Best Paper Prizes

The Econometric Society adopted a "Best Paper Prize" this year for its two journals Quantitative Economics and Theoretical Economics.  These awards highlight the best paper published in each of the journals in the areas of theoretical and empirical quantitative economics and economic theory. Winners are selected by the…

New editors at Theoretical Economics and Quantitative Economics

The editors of TE and QE, George Mailath and Rosa Matzkin, are completing their terms on June 30, 2017. The society in general, and I in particular, are grateful to them for all the wonderful work they've done for these journals, the society and the profession. While it is sad to see George…

2016 Frisch Medal

The selection committee for 2016  (Costas Meghir, chair; Elhanan Helpman, and Alessandro Lizzeri) awarded the Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society to Benjamin Handel, Igal Hendel and Michael Whinston for their article, "Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection versus Reclassification Risk",…

2016 Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics

The Society warmly congratulates Richard Blundell, Fellow and 2006 President of the Econometric Society, for receiving the 2016 Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics for his contributions to labor economics, public finance and applied econometrics.

http://www.nemmers.northwestern.edu/prizes/2016blundell.html

 

 

University of Macedonia: Short Course in Economics (SCE)

The University of Macedonia organizes a Summer School entitled “4th Short Course: Dynamic Programming – Theory, Computation and Empirical Applications”. The main objective of the event is to provide advanced training for young researchers on important aspects of economics and econometrics. The Course will…

Results of the Regional Standing Committee Elections

We are pleased to announce the results of the Regional Standing Committee elections. Congratulations to the newly elected voting members!

Africa Habiba Djebbari, Aix-Marseille University Steven Koch, University of Pretoria

Asia Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University

Australasia  Chris…

Call for Papers GAMES 2016, Fifth Congress of the Game Theory Society

Submission for GAMES 2016, the Fifth Congress of the Game Theory Society, is now open, and closes on February 15, 2016. The Congress takes place Sunday-Thursday 24-28 July, 2016 in Maastricht, the Netherlands. You can submit a paper (including an abstract of up to 150 words), and revise it until submission closes, after registering free of charge with the EasyChair conference…

Voting Open for Regional Standing Committee elections

Elections for voting members of the Regional Standing Committees are now open.  Participating in these elections allow you to have a voice in the governance of the Society in your Region, where most of our activities take place.

The list of candidates equals twice the number of vacancies in each region. Candidates for these slots could be…

2015 Election of At-Large Members of the Executive Committee

We are pleased to announce that Stephen Morris (Princeton University) and Rafael Repullo (CEMFI) have been elected At-Large Members of the Executive Committee for 2016-2019.

Hide Ichimura and Larry Samuelson's terms on the Executive Committee are ending on December 31. The Society expresses its gratitude…

In Memoriam: Herbert E. Scarf

Herbert E. Scarf, President of the Econometric Society in 1983 and a Fellow since 1962.

Herbert E. Scarf by Eddie Dekel, Econometric Society First Vice-President Herbert Scarf, an Economist’s Mathematician, Dies at 85 by Sam Roberts in The New York Times, Business Day, November 21, 2015 Herbert…