The Society Announces the 2019 Election Results of its Officers and Council

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Submitted by lhogan@economet... on Mon, 2019-11-11 09:53
Monday, November 11, 2019

The Econometric Society is pleased to announce the results of the 2019 Election of Officers and Council.

Orazio Attanasio, Yale University, has been elected President.

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Yale University and the World Bank, has been elected First Vice-President. She will presumably become President in 2021.

Guido Tabellini, Bocconi University, has been elected Second Vice-President. He will presumably become First Vice-President in 2021 and President in 2022.

Enrique Sentana, CEMFI, has been elected Executive Vice-President.

Econometric Society Fellows Receive Nobel Prize in Economics

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Submitted by lhogan@economet... on Mon, 2019-10-14 16:39
Monday, October 14, 2019

The Econometric Society would like to congratulate Abhijit Banerjee (MIT), Esther Duflo (MIT) and Michael Kremer (Harvard University), all three Fellows of the Econometric Society, for winning the Nobel Prize in economics today for their “experimental approach” to solving global poverty. Banerjee was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1995 and a Council member, 2005-2008. Duflo was elected a Fellow of the Society in 2010 and Kremer was elected a Fellow in 2008. 

 

 

Pinelopi Goldberg Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

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Submitted by lhogan@economet... on Tue, 2019-04-30 16:26
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

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 on public service leave from Yale University where she is the Elihu Professor of Economics. 

 

 

Appointment of the 2019 Officers and Council Nominating Committee

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Submitted by lhogan@economet... on Tue, 2019-01-29 08:03
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

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 members for agreeing to provide this important service to the Society.

Stephen Morris
President

 

 

 

 

Appointment of the 2019 Fellows Nominating Committee

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Submitted by lhogan@economet... on Mon, 2019-01-28 13:34
Monday, January 28, 2019

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 service to the Society.

Stephen Morris
President

2019 Election Results: Regional Standing Committees of the Econometric Society

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Submitted by lhogan@economet... on Tue, 2019-01-08 11:28
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

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 and Institute of Labor Economics

Australasia:
Peter Bossaerts
The University of Melbourne