Congratulations to the 2022 winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics

The Econometric Society congratulates Ben S. Bernanke (The Brookings Institution), elected Fellow of the Society in 1997, Douglas W. Diamond (University of Chicago), elected Fellow of the Society in 1990, and Philip H. Dybvig (Washington University in St. Louis), for their receipt of the Sveriges…

Tribute to former Econometric Society President Jacques Drèze

Tribute to former President Jacques Drèze by Claude d’Aspremont and Pierre Dehez It is with sorrow and great respect that we announce the passing of former Econometric Society President Jacques Drèze. A remembrance has been prepared by Claude d’Aspremont and Pierre Dehezand…

New Monograph Editor Announced

Andrea Prat will step down as Coeditor for the monographs in Economic Theory on June 30, 2023, at the end of his five-year term.  On July 1, 2023 Alessandro Pavan will become the new Coeditor responsible for Economic Theory. The Society is indebted to Andrea for his contribution to the series…

Nobu Kiyotaki Elected At-large member of the Society's Executive Committee

We are pleased to announce that Nobu Kiyotaki has been elected At-large member of the Econometric Society's Executive Committee for a period of four years from January 1st, 2023 to December 31st, 2026. We thank outgoing At-large member Dilip Mookherjee for his invaluable contributions…

The Econometric Society is Pleased to Announce the Results of its 2022 Election of Officers and Council.

The following have been elected to serve as officers in 2023: Rosa Matzkin, University of California, Los Angeles, has been elected President.  Eliana La Ferrara, Harvard Kennedy School, has been elected First Vice-President. She will presumably become President in 2024. Larry Samuelson,…

The Society Announces the Election of 38 Fellows

The Econometric Society congratulates its 38 new Fellows elected from all six regions of the world: Africa (1), Asia (1), Australasia (1), Europe (9), Latin America (2), and North America (24).  The 2022 FNC consisted of Dirk Bergemann (Chair), Xiaohong Chen, Janet Currie, Aureo de Paula, Pascaline…

Editor of Econometrica- Editorial Board Changes

The current four-year term of the Editor of Econometrica, Guido W. Imbens, will reach completion June 30, 2023.  I am very pleased to announce that Guido has agreed to stay on as Editor for an additional and last term of two years.  Econometrica has greatly benefited from Guido’s leadership,…

2022 Frisch Medal Awarded

The Econometric Society is pleased to announce that the 2022 Frisch Medal selection committee consisting of Marianne Bertrand (chair), Steven Berry, Igal Hendel, Kate Ho, and Stephen J. Redding  has awarded this year’s Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society to Giulia Brancaccio, Myrto Kalouptsidi,…

2022 Best TE Paper Prize Awarded

We are pleased to announce that "Uncertainty-Driven Cooperation," by Doruk Cetemen, Ilwoo Hwang, and Ayça Kaya, Theoretical Economics, Volume 15, Number 3 (2020)  has been awarded the 2022 Best TE Paper Prize.   Abstract We consider dynamic team production in the…

World Congress 2025, Seeking Expressions of Interest to Host

  Call for Expressions of Interest The next World Congress (WC) of the Econometric Society (ES) will take place in August 2025 at a location to be decided by the Executive Committee (EC) of the ES in January 2023. The EC welcomes expressions…

Tribute to former President János Kornai

It is with sorrow and great respect that we announce the passing of former Econometric Society President János Kornai. A remembrance has been prepared by Eric Maskin and posted here and on the Econometric Society web site. 

2021 Regional Standing Committee Election Results Released

We are pleased to announce the following members have been elected to their respective Regional Standing Committee. Africa:               Steven Koch and Ismael Mourifie Australasia:      Heather Anderson and Lata Gangadharan Europe:  …