November 9, 2015
2015 Election of Officers and Council
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2015 Election of Officers and Council.Eddie Dekel, Tel Aviv University and Northwestern University, has been elected President.
Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University, has been elected First Vice-President.
Tim Besley, London School of Economics, has been elected Second Vice-President, and will be Vice-President…
November 4, 2015
2015 Election of Fellows
We are pleased to announce the election of 13 new Fellows of the Econometric Society.George-Marios Angeletos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pol Antras, Harvard University Patrick Bajari, University of Washington, Seattle C. Lanier Benkard, Stanford University Harold Cole, University of Pennsylvania Emmanuel…
November 4, 2015
2015 Election of Second Vice-President
Congratulations to Tim Besley, London School of Economics and Political Science, who has been elected Second Vice-President, and will be Vice-President in 2017, and President in 2018.November 3, 2015
Yair Mundlak
The Economics profession lost one of its most significant and distinguished intellectual leaders with the passing of Yair Mundlak. Yair was a friend and valued colleague to everyone in the profession and his work established many of the foundations of modern econometric research. He will be remembered not only for his intellectual…October 26, 2015
Regional Standing Committee Nominations
Nominations for the Regional Standing Committee elections close on November 15. To nominate a candidate please go to https://econometricsociety.org/esballot/regional-nomination/ .October 20, 2015
2015 Nobel Prize in Economics
The Society proudly congratulates Angus Deaton for receiving the 2015 Nobel Prize for his pathbreaking work on consumption, poverty, and welfare. Deaton is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a former Editor of Econometrica; he was the first recipient of the Frisch medal .October 19, 2015
Harris Schlesinger
Harris Schlesinger died September 29, 2015 at age 63. Harris was Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Alabama and he held the Frank Park Samford Chair of Insurance. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He began his academic career as Assistant Professor…October 8, 2015
2015 World Congress Presentation Slides
The presentation slides for the 2015 World Congress Invited Lectures are now posted at https://www.econometricsociety.org/content/2015-world-congress-invited-lectures .August 3, 2015
Che-Lin Su
It is with great sadness that we write this news. After a brief battle with an aggressive cancer, Che-Lin Su succumbed on Friday surrounded by his family. Che-Lin was an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was…July 24, 2015
Stephen A. Ross Prize in Financial Economics
The Society warmly congratulates Darrell Duffie, Jun Pan and Ken Singleton for obtaining the 4th Stephen A. Ross Prize for their 2000 Econometrica article, "Transform Analysis and Asset Pricing for Affine Jump-Diffusions".May 26, 2015
John F. Nash, Jr.
John F. Nash, Jr. was killed in a car accident on May 24, 2015. A Fellow of the Society, he shared the 1994 Nobel Prize with John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten for their pioneering analysis of game theory. He also shared the 2015 Abel Prize with Louis Nirenberg for his contributions in the field of partial differential equations.Econometrica…
April 24, 2015
