2009 Election of Officers and Council

We are pleased to announce the results of the 2009 Election of Officers and Council.

Jean-Charles Rochet has been elected Second Vice-President, and will be First Vice-President in 2011, and President in 2012.

The following have been elected or reelected to the Council:

Australasia
Michael P. Keane (University of Technology, Sydney)
Andrew McLennan (University of Queensland)

Europe and Other…

2009 Election of Fellows

We are pleased to announce the election of 21 new Fellows of the Econometric Society.  Of the 433 Fellows eligible to vote, 311 Fellows participated in the Fellow election.

Helmut Bester, Freie Universität Berlin

Anne C. Case, Princeton University

Yeon‐Koo Che, Columbia University

Victor Chernozhukov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University

Han Hong, Stanford University

Mamoru…

Endorsement of EconJobMarket.org

The Executive Committee agreed to endorse EconJobMarket.org, a non-profit central repository for job market materials, in the understanding the Society will not be restricted from endorsing other international electronic job market platforms. 

New Econometric Society Journals

New Econometric Society Journals
QUANTITATIVE ECONOMICS and THEORETICAL ECONOMICS

Starting in 2010, the Econometric Society will publish two new journals, called Quantitative Economics and Theoretical Economics. These will be open access journals, meaning that electronic access will be free for both members and non-members of the Society. Each journal will have its own Editorial Board, with an Editor, several Co-Editors,…

2008 Election of Officers and Council

We are pleased to announce the results of the 2008 Election of Officers and Council.

Bengt Holmström has been elected Second Vice-President, and will be First Vice-President in 2010, and President in 2011.

The following have been elected or reelected to the Council:

Europe and Other Areas
Orazio Attanasio, Jacques Cremer, Mathias Dewatripont, and Margaret…

2010 World Congress Program Chairs

The Organization Committee of the 2010 World Congress of the Econometric Society, which will take place in Shanghai, August 17-21, has appointed Daron Acemoglu, Manuel Arellano, and Eddie Dekel as Program Chairs.

2008 Frisch Medal Award

The Frisch Medal has been established by the Econometric Society to encourage the creation of good applied work and its submission to Econometrica. It is given every two years for an applied article (empirical or theoretical) published in Econometrica during the past five years.

The selection committee for 2008 (Gary…

2007 Election of Officers and Council

We are pleased to announce the results of the 2007 Election of Officers and Council.

John H. Moore has been elected Second Vice-President, and will be First Vice-President in 2009, and President in 2010.

The following have been elected or reelected to the Council:

Europe and Other Areas
Christopher A. Pissarides

North…

2007 Election of Fellows

We are pleased to announce the election of 16 new Fellows of the Econometric Society.  Of the 433 Fellows eligible to vote 305 Fellows participated in the Fellows election.

Fernando Alvarez
Department of Economics
University of Chicago
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, Illinois  60636
USA

Lawrence Ausubel
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
Tydings Hall, Room 3105
College Park, Maryland  20742-7211
USA

Dirk Bergemann
Department of Economics
Yale University
Box 208281
New Haven, Connecticut  06520-8281
USA

Xiaohong Chen
Department of Economics
Yale University
Box 208281
New Haven, Connecticut  06520-8281
USA

John C. Heaton
Graduate School of…

2010 World Congress Venue

The Executive Committee of the Econometric Society has considered the proposals to host the 2010 World Congress presented by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in cooperation with Fudan University and China Europe International Business School, the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE) in cooperation…

2007 Nobel Prize

The 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin, and  Roger Myerson. Hurwicz was elected Fellow in 1947 and was President in 1969, Maskin was elected Fellow in 1981 and was President in 2003, and Myerson was elected Fellow in 1983 and will be President in 2009.

Monograph Series Online

We are very pleased to announce that free online access to the Econometric Society's Monograph Series (including the World Congress volumes) is now available for all members.

Log on with your username and password. Then simply click on the link "Monograph Series Online" in the left-hand column or go to…