2016 Africa Meeting

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: March 13, 2016

Submissions: http://editorialexpress.com/conference/AFES2016
Website: http://www.africametrics.org/

The 2016 Africa Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESAM 2016) will take place at the Protea Hotel Kruger Gate in Mpumalanga, South Africa, July 26 to 28, 2016.  The Meeting is hosted by the Department of Economics at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. 

The Presidential Address will be given by Eddie Dekel (Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University). In addition to submitted papers there will be two invited lectures. The invited speakers are:

Richard Blundell (University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies, London); and
Stephen Turnovsky (University of Washington and Victoria University of Wellington, NZ).

Submissions will be open from February 1, 2016. The deadline for submissions is March 11, 2016. Papers can only be submitted electronically through Conference Maker on https://editorialexpress.com/conference/AFES2016. At least one of the authors must be a member of the Econometric Society, and all participants must register for the conference. You may join the Society at http://www.econometricsociety.org/. Each person may submit only one paper and present only one paper. However, each person is allowed to be the co-author of several papers submitted to the conference.

The Programme Chairs are Victor Murinde (University of Birmingham) and Steve Koch (University of Pretoria).  The Local Organising Committee Chairs are Reneé van Eyden and Steve Koch (both from the University of Pretoria).