Society Journal Editors Plan to Address Increasing Paper Length

Statement from the editors of Econometrica, Quantitative Economics, and Theoretical Economics

Published papers in many of the economics journals have gotten much longer over the years. The Econometric Society journals Econometrica, Theoretical Economics and Quantitative Economics, are no exception. The average length of a paper in Econometrica…

Pinelopi Goldberg Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Econometric Society Officer, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, was among 100 new members and 25 foreign associates elected today to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of distinguished and continuing achievements in science. Goldberg, currently chief economist of the World Bank Group, is currently…

2019 "Best Paper Prize" Awarded

We are pleased to announce the following paper has been awarded the 2019 "Best Paper Prize" by the award committee:   "Learning in Network Games," by Jaromír Kovářík, Friederike Mengel, and José Gabriel Romero, Quantitative Economics, Volume…

Nominations for Fellow of the Econometric Society are Open

Nominations for Fellow of the Econometric Society are Open

We are pleased to announce that nominations for Fellow of the Econometric Society are now open. The deadline to complete an online nomination for Fellow, including endorsements, is May 31, 2019.

Any member with a current membership can propose a candidate by filling in a nomination…

Appointment of the 2019 Officers and Council Nominating Committee

I am pleased to announce the appointment of the 2019 Officers and Council Nominating Committee. The members of this year's committee are: Tim Besley (Chair), Daron Acemoglu, Orazio Attanasio, Atsushi Kajii, Michael Keane, Stephen Morris, and Jorgen Weibull I wish to thank the…

Appointment of the 2019 Fellows Nominating Committee

I am pleased to announce the appointment of the 2019 Fellows Nominating Committee. The members of this year's committee are: Liran Einav (Chair), Fumio Hayashi, Per Krussell, Ariel Pakes, Elie Tamer, Harald Uhlig, and Juuso Välimäki I wish to thank them for agreeing to provide this important…

2019 Election Results: Regional Standing Committees of the Econometric Society

I am happy to announce the results of the elections of voting members of the Regional Standing Committees of the Econometric Society.   The newly elected members are:

Africa: Yaw Nyarko New York University

Asia: Been-Lon Chen Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Jessica Pan National University of Singapore…

At-large Members Elected to Represent the Council of the Econometric Society

I am pleased to announce that Daron Acemoglou and Dilip Mookherjee have been elected as At-large members representing the Council of the Econometric Society effective January 1st, 2019. They succeed Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Andrew McLennan. The Society is very grateful to both the incoming…

The Econometric Society is Pleased to Announce the Results of the 2018 Election of Officers and Council

Following are the results of the 2018 Election of Officers and Council.

Stephen Morris, Princeton University, has been elected President.

Orazio Attanasio, University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies, has been elected First Vice President.

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Yale University, has been…

The Econometric Society is Pleased to Announce the Election of 22 New Fellows

The Society is pleased to announce the election of 22 new Fellows of the Econometric Society.

Mark Aguiar, Princeton University Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University Jan De Loecker, University of Leuven, Belgium Pascaline Dupas, Stanford University Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania…

ES World Congress 2020 Announced

We are pleased to announce that the next World Congress of the Econometric Society will take place at Bocconi University in Milan (Italy) on August 17-21, 2020. The Programme Chairs are Victor Chernozhukov (MIT), Johannes Hörner (Yale) and Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi) and the Chair of the Local…

Econometric Society Fellows Receive 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics

The Econometric Society would like to congratulate William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer, both Fellows of the Econometric Society, for being awarded the Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018. Prof. Nordhaus (Yale University), elected Fellow of the Society in 1984, was awarded the…