Past Presidents

2023 Rosa Matzkin (United States)

2022 Guido Tabellini (Italy)

2021 Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg (United States)
Presidential Address: Demand-Side Constraints in Development. The Role of Market Size, Trade, and (In)Equality. Volume 91, Issue 6, 1915-1950
2020 Orazio Attanasio (United States)

Presidential Address: Economics and Measurement: New measures to model decision making. Volume 92, Issue 4, 947-978
2019 Stephen Morris (United States)

2018 Tim Besley (United Kingdom)
State Capacity, Reciprocity, and the Social Contract. Vol. 88, No. 4, 1307-1335
2017 Drew Fudenberg (United States)

2016 Eddie Dekel (United States)

2015 Robert Porter (United States)

2014 Manuel Arellano (Spain)
Earnings and Consumption Dynamics: A Nonlinear Panel Data Framework, Vol. 85, No. 3, 693-734
2013 James J. Heckman (United States)
Unordered Monotonicity, Vol. 86, No. 1, 1–35
2012 Jean-Charles Rochet (France)
A Theory of the Stakeholder Corporation, Vol. 83, No. 5, 1685-1725
2011 Bengt Holmstrom (United States)

2010 John H. Moore (United Kingdom)

2009 Roger B. Myerson (United States)
Moral Hazard in High Office and the Dynamics of Aristocracy, Volume 83, No. 6, 2083-2126
2008 Torsten Persson (Sweden)
State Capacity, Conflict and Development, Vol. 78, No. 1, 1-34
2007 Lars Peter Hansen (United States)

2006 Richard Blundell (United Kingdom)

2005 Thomas J. Sargent (United States)
Two Questions about European Unemployment, Vol. 74, No. 1, 1-29
2004 Ariel Rubinstein (Israel)
Dilemmas of an Economic Theorist, Vol. 74, No. 4, 865-883
2003 Eric  Maskin (United States)

2002 Guy Laroque (France)
Income Maintenance and Labor Force Participation, Vol. 73, No. 2, 341-376
2001 Avinash K. Dixit (United States)
On Modes of Economic Governance, Vol. 71, No. 2, 449-481
2000 Elhanan Helpman (Israel)

1999 Robert B. Wilson (United States)
Architecture of Power Markets, Vol. 70, No. 4, 1299-1340
1998 Jean Tirole (France)
Corporate Governance, Vol. 69, No. 1, 1-35
1997 Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (United States)
Inflation and Welfare, Vol. 68, No. 2, 247-274

Remembrance of Past President Robert E. Lucas, Jr. by Thomas J. Sargent
1996 Roger Guesnerie (France)
Anchoring Economic Predictions in Common Knowledge, Vol. 70, No. 2, 439-480
1995 Christopher Sims (United States)

1994 Takashi Negishi (Japan)

1993 Andreu Mas-Colell (Spain)

1992 Jean-Jacques Laffont (France)
The New Economics of Regulation Ten Years After, Vol. 62, No. 3, 507-537
1991 Peter Diamond (United States)
Organizing the Health Insurance Market, Vol. 60, No. 6, 1233-1254
1990 Jean-Michel Grandmont (France)
Expectations Formation and Stability of Large Socioeconomic Systems, Vol. 66, No. 4, 741-781
1989 Hugo Sonnenschein (United States)
Hugo F. Sonnenschein by former president Andreu Mas-Colell 
1988 Anthony B. Atkinson (United Kingdom)
Anthony B. Atkinson
1987 Dale Jorgenson (United States)
Obituary by Bob Hall

Aggregate Consumer Behavior and the Measurement of Social Welfare, Vol. 58, No. 5, 1007-1040
1986 Michael Bruno (Israel)
Econometrics and the Design of Economic Reform, Vol. 57, No. 2, 275-306
1985 Daniel McFadden (United States)

1984 Amartya K. Sen (United States)
Internal Consistency of Choice, Vol. 61, No. 3, 495-521
1983 Herbert E. Scarf (United States)
Herbert E. Scarf

Herbert Scarf

Herbert Scarf (1930-2015) by John B. Shoven and John Whalley

Neighborhood Systems for Production Sets with Indivisibilities, Vol. 54, No. 3, 507-532
1982 James A. Mirrlees (United Kingdom)
Cambridge, Oxford, Cambridge, CUHK, President ES 1981
James Mirrlees
1981 Marc Nerlove (United States)
Expectations, Plans, and Realizations in Theory and Practice, Vol. 51, No. 5, 1251-1280
1980 John D. Sargan (United Kingdom)
Identification and Lack of Identification, Vol. 51, No. 6, 1605-1634
1979 Franklin M. Fisher (United States)
Franklin Fisher

Stability, Disequilibrium Awareness, and the Perception of New Opportunities, Vol. 49, No. 2, 279-317
1978 János Kornai (Hungary)
A tribute to former President János Kornai by Eric Maskin

Resource-Constrained versus Demand-Constrained Systems, Vol. 47, No. 4, 801-820
1977 Lionel McKenzie (United States)
The Classical Theorem on Existence of Competitive Equilibrium, Vol. 49, No. 4, 819-841
1976 Hirofumi Uzawa (Japan)

1975 Zvi Griliches (United States)
Estimating the Returns to Schooling: Some Econometric Problems, Vol. 45, No. 1, 1-22
1974 Don Patinkin (Israel)
Keynes and Econometrics: On the Interaction between the Macroeconomic Revolutions of the Interwar Period, Vol. 44, No. 6, 1091-1123
1973 Roy Radner (United States)

Memorial of Roy Radner by Jean-Michel Grandmont
1972 W. M. Gorman (United Kingdom)

1971 Gerard Debreu (United States)
Smooth Preferences, Vol. 40, No. 4, 603-615
1970 Jacques Dreze (Belgium)
Econometrics and Decision Theory, Vol. 40, No. 1, 1-18

In memory of Jacques Dreze by Claude d’Aspremont and Pierre Dehez.
1969 Leonid Hurwicz (United States)
Leonid Hurwicz
1968 Frank H. Hahn (United Kingdom)
Some Adjustment Problems, Vol. 38, No. 1, 1-17
1967 Hendrik S. Houthakker (United States)
Hendrik S. Houthakker
1966 Herman Wold (Sweden)
Econometrics as Pioneering in Nonexperimental Model Building, Vol. 37, No. 3, 369-381
1965 Michio Morishima (Japan)

1964 Robert Solow (United States)

In memory of Robert M. Solow by Peter Diamond
1963 Edmond Malinvaud (France)
Edmond Malinvaud

In Memory of Edmond Malinvaud by Roger Guesnerie

Edmond Malinvaud: A Tribute to his Contributions in Econometrics by Peter C. B. Phillips

Edmond Malinvaud's Contributions to Microeconomics by Guy Laroque and Bernard Salanié
1962 Franco Modigliani (United States)

1961 Henri Theil (Netherlands)

1960 Lawrence R.  Klein (United States)
Lawrence R. Klein
1959 Marcel Boiteux (France)

Marcel Boiteux
1958 James Tobin (United States)

1957 Trygve Haavelmo (Norway)
The Role of the Econometrician in the Advancement of Economic Theory, Vol. 26, No. 3, 351-357
1956 Kenneth J. Arrow (United States)
Kenneth J. Arrow

Kenneth Arrow's Contributions to Social Choice Theory by Eric Maskin

Kenneth Arrow's Contributions to General Equilibrium by John Geanakoplos

Kenneth Arrow's Work on Coping with Risk and Uncertainty by Menahem Yaari

Kenneth Arrow on Public Goods, Public Policy, and Environmental Economics by Partha Dasgupta

Statistics and Economic Policy, Vol. 25, No. 4, 523-531
1955 J. Richard Stone (United Kingdom)

1954 Wassily Leontief (United States)

1953 René Roy (France)

1952 Paul Samuelson (United States)
Paul Samuelson
1951 R. G. D. Allen (United Kingdom)

1950 Tjalling C. Koopmans (United States)

1949 Ragnar Frisch (Norway)

1948 Charles F. Roos (United States)

1947 Jan Tinbergen (Netherlands)

1946 Jacob Marschak (United States)

1945 John Maynard Keynes (United Kingdom)

1944 John Maynard Keynes (United Kingdom)

1943 Wesley C. Mitchell (United States)

1942 Wesley C. Mitchell (United States)

1941 Joseph A. Schumpeter (United States)

1940 Joseph A. Schumpeter (United States)

1939 Arthur L. Bowley (United Kingdom)

1938 Arthur L. Bowley (United Kingdom)

1937 Harold Hotelling (United States)
The General Welfare in Relation to Problems of Taxation and of Railway and Utility Rates,Vol. 6, No. 3, 242-269
1936 Harold Hotelling (United States)
The General Welfare in Relation to Problems of Taxation and of Railway and Utility Rates,Vol. 6, No. 3, 242-269
1935 François Divisia (France)

1932 Irving Fisher (United States)

1933 Irving Fisher (United States)

1934 Irving Fisher (United States)

1931 Irving Fisher (United States)