Remembrance of Robert M. Solow, President, the Econometric Society, 1964

In Remembrance of Robert M. Solow by Peter Diamond

As you probably know, former Econometric Society President Robert M. Solow passed away on December 21, 2023. A remembrance has been prepared by former President Peter Diamond. You can find the remembrance here and can also find it and remembrances for other past Presidents on the Econometric Society web site here.

Eliana La Ferrara
President

Announcing the new 2025 co-editors

Starting July 1, 2025, we will have seven new Co-Editors for the Society's three journals. Click above to access the full announcement.

Econometrica Editorial Board Changes

Econometrica has an update in its upcoming board change this October 2024.

In Remembrance of Robert E. Lucas, Jr., President, the Econometric Society, 1997

In Remembrance of Robert E. Lucas, Jr., by Thomas J. Sargent

As you probably know, former Econometric Society President Robert Lucas passed away on May 15, 2023. A remembrance has been prepared by former President Thomas Sargent. You can find the remembrance here and can also find it and remembrances for other past Presidents on the Econometric Society web site here.

Eliana La Ferrara
President

Remembrance of Marc Nerlove, President of the Econometric Society, 1981

It is with sorrow and great respect that I announce the passing of former Econometric Society President Marc Nerlove. A remembrance has been prepared by former President James Heckman and can be found here. 

Eliana La Ferrara
President

Announcing WC2025 Mentoring Initiative - Supporting Professional Development

We are pleased to announce the establishment of a new Econometric Society standing committee - The Committee for Supporting Professional Development.

The committee’s mandate is to identify and help implement initiatives to support researchers’ professional development across Econometric Society regions.

Announcing the Winners of the Econometric Society's 2024 Prizes

Announcing the Launch of the Econometric Society Conference Paper Archive

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Econometric Society Conference Paper Archive, a working paper archive for papers presented at Society conferences. Society members will be offered the opportunity to post their papers permanently on the site after presentation at any regional meeting, the World Congress, or other Society conference. Presenters will also be able to upload slides from the talk if desired.

The archive will hold papers from 2024 on. We will soon be reaching out to those who have already presented at 2024 meetings, specifically, the North American Winter Meeting in San Antonio and the Asia Meeting-C/S/W that took place in Delhi, India. Thereafter, we will send an email to each group of presenters following the conference at which they presented.

We encourage members to update their papers in the archive as they are revised over time. Papers in the archive will be linked to the member's profile as well as the associated regional website.

Please let us know if you have comments or suggestions on this or other Society initiatives.

Announcing the New Journal Editors

The terms of the Editors of the Econometric Society's three journals end June 30, 2025. We are pleased to announce the incoming Editors and to thank the outgoing Editors for their excellent and continuing service.

Econometrica: Since 2019, Guido Imbens has served as the 14th Editor of Econometrica. On July 1, 2025, Marina Halac will become the Editor.

Quantitative Economics: Stéphane Bonhomme has been the Editor of Quantitative Economics since 2021. His successor will be Bernard Salanié.

Theoretical Economics: The Editor of Theoretical Economics since 2021 has been Simon Board. Taking over for him in July 2025 will be Federico Echenique.

Guido, Stéphane, and Simon have been outstanding Editors. We are grateful to them for the work they have done and will continue to do, and we look forward to further congratulating them next year. We believe Marina, Bernard, and Federico will be outstanding successors and we thank them in advance for their service.

Finally, we are grateful to Larry Samuelson for chairing all three search committees, and we thank the search committee members for their hard and fruitful work:

Econometrica: Christian Dustmann, Lars Hansen, Alessandro Lizzeri, George Mailath, Ariel Pakes, Helene Rey, and Elie Tamer.

QE: Kate Ho, Michael Keane, Felix Kubler, Whitney Newey, and Frank Schorfheide.

TE: Jeff Ely, Johannes Horner, Gilat Levy, Meg Meyer, and Ran Spiegler.

Announcing New Econometric Society Prizes and Lectures Series

We are pleased to announce the addition of three new prizes and three new lectures series sponsored by the Econometric Society.

The three new prizes are the Arrow Prize, the Haavelmo Prize, and the Sonnenschein Service Prize. The three added lectures series are the Blackwell-Robinson Omnibus Lectures (for interdisciplinary/cross-field research), the Lewis-Ostrom Lectures in Applied Economics, and the Lucas-Modigliani Lectures in Macroeconomics and Finance.

The first two new prizes parallel the Frisch Medal. First awarded in 1978, the Frisch Medal is presented every other year for the best applied economics paper in Econometrica in the previous four years.

The Arrow Prize will be given to the best theory paper in Econometrica in the past four years, while the Haavelmo Prize will be awarded to the best econometrics paper in Econometrica over that period. The Frisch Medal, Arrow Prize, and Haavelmo Prize will be given in even-numbered years, with the latter two being awarded for the first time in 2024.

The third new award, the Sonnenschein Service Prize, will be given in recognition of extraordinary service to the Econometric Society or the profession at large. It will be awarded every year, starting in 2024, with the recipient chosen by the President of the Society and the chairs of the six Regional Standing Committees.

Announcing the First Conference in a New Interdisciplinary Series: The 2024 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting

The 2024 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting
August 13 - 14, 2024,
Cornell University, Ithaca, United States

The Econometric Society is pleased to announce an interdisciplinary conference on Economics and AI+ML, the first in a series of Econometric Society Interdisciplinary Frontiers (ESIF) conferences.

The purpose of the Economics and AI+ML Meeting, which will be held at Cornell University, in Ithaca NY (USA) on August 13-14, 2024, is to foster interaction of ideas and methodologies from the areas of Computer Science and Economics (broadly defined, but with emphasis on AI and ML). The conference will feature keynote lectures and parallel sessions, bringing together scholars from both fields.

The ESIF series more broadly will promote interdisciplinary approaches to important economic issues and global challenges, with each conference hosted or co-hosted by various regions of the Econometric Society. The 2024 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting is hosted by the North America region.

Important Dates for the 2024 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting

Submissions open: December 20, 2023
Paper Submission Period: December 20, 2023 – February 25, 2024
Decision Notification Deadline: April 21, 2024
Registration Period (for presenters): April 21, 2024 – May 4, 2024
Preliminary Program Announcement: May 25, 2024

Keynote Speakers

Susan Athey (Stanford University)
David Blei (Columbia University)
Avrim Blum (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)
Michael I. Jordan (University of California, Berkeley)
Whitney Newey (MIT)

Program Committee

Co-Chairs: Francesca Molinari and Eva Tardos (Cornell University)
Committee Members:
Dirk Bergemann, Yale University
Larry Blume, Cornell University
Emma Brunskill, Stanford University
Sarah Dean, Cornell University
David Easley, Cornell University
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto
Nika Haghtalab, University of California, Berkeley
Jason Hartline, Northwestern University
Hoda Heidari, Carnegie Mellon University
Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia
Annie Liang, Northwestern University
Elena Manresa, New York University
Paul Milgrom, Stanford University
Jose (Pepe) Montiel-Olea, Cornell University
Sendhil Mullainathan, University of Chicago
Pasqual Restrepo, Boston University
Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University
Devavrat Shah, MIT
Joerg Stoye, Cornell University
Vasilis Syrgkanis, Stanford University
Martin Wainwright, MIT

The Econometric Society Announces the Winners of its Regional Standing Committee Elections

The Econometric Society is pleased to announce the winners of the Regional Standing Committee Elections. Elections took place in all Society regions. Terms will begin Jan. 1, 2024.

Africa
Rim Lahmandi-Ayed, Carthage University, Tunisia
Damian Kalu Ude, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture

Asia
Fumio Hayashi, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Takako Fujiwara-Greve, Keio University
Jonathan Newton, Kyoto University

Australasia
Sascha Becker, Monash University
Begona Dominguez, University of Queensland

Europe and Other Areas
Volker Nocke, University of Mannheim
Ran Spiegler, Tel Aviv University & University College London

Latin America
Sofia Bauducco, Central Bank of Chile
Ernesto Schargrodsky, UTDT/CAF – Development Bank of Latin America

North America
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley