European Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, August 23-27,2009

THE 2009 EUROPEAN MEETING of the Econometric Society (ESEM) will take place in Barcelona, Spain from 23 to 27 August, 2009. The Meeting is jointly organized by the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and it will run in parallel with the Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA).  The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2009.  Submission instructions can be found at http://eea-esem2009.barcelonagse.eu/callpapers.php . 

This year's Fisher-Schultz Lecture will be given by Faruk Gul (Princeton). The Laffont Lecture will be given by Guido Imbens (Harvard).

The Program Committee Chairs are Prof. Juuso Välimäki (Helsinki School of Economics) for Theoretical and Applied Economics; Prof. Gerard J. van der Berg (Free University Amsterdam) for Econometrics and Empirical Economics.

The Local Arrangements Committee
Albert Carreras, Chairman -- Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE
Carmen Bevià -- Universitat Autònomade Barcelona and Barcelona GSE
Jordi Brandts -- Institute for Economic Analysis-CSIC and Barcelona GSE
Eduard Vallory, Secretary - Barcelona GSE Director -General

All details regarding the congress, including the list of invited speakers, can be found on the website http://eea-esem2009.barcelonagse.eu/.

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