Dear Members of the Econometric Society,
The transition of the Society’s Executive Vice President formally took place May 1, 2018 when Bernard Salanié (Columbia University) stepped down after five years of distinguished leadership and Enrique Sentana (CEMFI, Madrid) took his place.
The Econometric Society is pleased to announce that the 2018 Frisch Medal selection committee of Torsten Persson, Dave Donaldson and Igal Hendel has awarded this year’s Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society to Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Stephen Redding, Daniel Sturm, and Nikolaus Wolf for their paper, "The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall”, (Econometrica, Vol. 83, No. 6, November 2015, 2127–2189)
The Econometric Society congratulates the 2017 winners of the "Best Paper Prize" for its two journals Quantitative Economics and Theoretical Economics. These awards highlight the best paper published in each of the journals in the areas of quantitative economics and economic theory. The journals' Editors and Co-Editors select a list of nominees, from which the Associate Editors elect the winning paper.
The Society welcomes Lyn Hogan as its new General Manager. It thanks her predecessor Claire Sashi for her work in ensuring the smooth functioning of our many activities and it wishes her the best in her future endeavors.
Lyn can be reached at lhogan@econometricsociety.org and her office will be housed at the Cowles Foundation, Yale University.
I am pleased to announce that Enrique Sentana (CEMFI, Madrid) was elected by the Fellows to succeed Bernard Salanié (Columbia University) as Executive Vice-President of the Society. In this capacity, he will serve as both Secretary and Treasurer of the Society. He will take over on May 1st, 2018.
The Society has just completed the relocation of its office from New York University to the Cowles Foundation. We gratefully acknowledge NYU for hosting our office since 2005.
The office address will now be:
Econometric Society
Cowles Foundation
Yale University
30 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
We are pleased to announce the election of 20 new Fellows of the Econometric Society.
Elchanan Ben-Porath, Hebrew University
Mark Bils, University of Rochester
Stéphane Bonhomme, University of Chicago
David Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Juan Dubra, Universidad de Montevideo
Robert C. Feenstra, University of California, Davis
Sergio Firpo, Instituto Unibanco Professor of Economics at Insper
Richard Holden, University of New South Wales
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2017 Election of Officers and Council.
Timothy Besley, London School of Economics, has been elected President.
Stephen Morris, Princeton University, has been elected First Vice-President.
Orazio Attanasio, University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies, has been elected Second Vice-President. He will be First Vice-President in 2019, and President in 2020.
Bernard Salanié, Columbia University, has been elected Executive Vice-President.
The following have been elected to the Council.
Tributes in remembrance of Kenneth Arrow have been posted .
Kenneth J. Arrow, Elected 1951, President 1956
Kenneth Arrow's Contributions to Social Choice Theory by Eric Maskin
Congratulations to the winners of the ESEM Award 2017 at the 70th European Meeting of the Econometric Society.
In recognition of the two best papers in applied economics presented by young researchers.
"Dynamics in Gun Ownership and Crime - Evidence from the Aftermath of Sandy Hook"
Presented by: David Schindler, Tilburg University, joint with Christoph Koenig, Bristol University
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