November 17, 2011
2011 Election of Officers and Council
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2011 Election of Officers and Council. Manuel Arellano, CEMFI, has been elected Second Vice-President, and will be Vice-President in 2013, and President in 2014. Rafael Repullo, CEMFI, will be Executive Vice-President until June 30, 2012. Hyun Song Shin,…October 17, 2011
2015 World Congress
The next World Congress of the Econometric Society will take place in the summer of 2015 at a location to be decided by the Executive Committee in August 2012. Expressions of interest by potential local organizers are being solicited. The proposed venue should have a large auditorium for the plenary…October 10, 2011
2011 Nobel Prize
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy." Sargent was elected Fellow in 1976 and was President in 2005, and Sims was elected Fellow in 1974 and was President in 1995.November 22, 2010
2010 Election of Fellows
We are pleased to announce the election of 16 new Fellows of the Econometric Society. Of the 456 Fellows eligible to vote, 343 Fellows participated in the Fellow election. Franklin Allen, University of PennsylvaniaBruno Biais, Toulouse School of EconomicsPeter Bossaerts, California Institute…November 22, 2010
2010 Election of Officers and Council
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2010 Election of Officers and Council.James Heckman has been elected Second Vice-President, and will be First Vice-President in 2012, and President in 2013.The following have been elected or reelected to the Council:Europe and Other AreasMartin Browning…July 14, 2010
2010 Frisch Medal Award
The Frisch Medal has been established by the Econometric Society to encourage the creation of good applied work and its submission to Econometrica. It is given every two years for an applied article (empirical or theoretical) published in Econometrica during the past five years. The selection committee…December 8, 2009
2010 World Congress Call for Papers
The Tenth World Congress of the Econometric Society will take place in Shanghai, China, August 17-21, 2010. Papers presented at the Congress will represent a broad spectrum of theoretical and applied economics and econometrics. The invited program will consist of five named lectures, fifteen paired invited…November 26, 2009
2009 Election of Officers and Council
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2009 Election of Officers and Council.Jean-Charles Rochet has been elected Second Vice-President, and will be First Vice-President in 2011, and President in 2012.The following have been elected or reelected to the Council:AustralasiaMichael P. Keane (University…November 26, 2009
2009 Election of Fellows
We are pleased to announce the election of 21 new Fellows of the Econometric Society. Of the 433 Fellows eligible to vote, 311 Fellows participated in the Fellow election. Helmut Bester, Freie Universität BerlinAnne C. Case, Princeton UniversityYeon‐Koo Che, Columbia UniversityVictor…November 16, 2009
Endorsement of EconJobMarket.org
The Executive Committee agreed to endorse EconJobMarket.org, a non-profit central repository for job market materials, in the understanding the Society will not be restricted from endorsing other international electronic job market platforms.February 4, 2009
New Econometric Society Journals
New Econometric Society JournalsQUANTITATIVE ECONOMICS and THEORETICAL ECONOMICS Starting in 2010, the Econometric Society will publish two new journals, called Quantitative Economics and Theoretical Economics. These will be open access journals, meaning that electronic access will be free for both members…December 3, 2008