We are pleased to report the election of the following members to their respective Regional Standing Committees. There were 599 members who voted in 2019 for the 2020 RSC.
North America
Steve Berry
Europe and Other Areas
Michele Tertilt
Jean-Charles Rochet
Latin America
Matias Cattaneo
Cecilia Machado
Asia
Yuichi Kitamura
Songnian Chen
Katsumi Shimotsu
Australasia
Yves Zenou
James Morley
The Society reports with great sadness the passing of Franklin M. Fisher who served as the Society's President in 1979.
Franklin M. Fisher, by James M. Poterba and Michael D. Whinston
http://news.mit.edu/2019/franklin-fisher-professor-emeritus-economics-dies-84-0508
I am pleased to announce that Hélène Rey (London Business School) and Larry Samuelson (Yale University) have been elected as At-large members representing the Council of the Econometric Society on the Executive Committee effective January 1st, 2020. They succeed Whitney Newey (MIT) and Rafael Repullo (CEMFI). The Society is very grateful to both the incoming and outgoing At-large members for their continued services.
Enrique Sentana
Executive Vice-President
Econometric Society
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.
The Society is pleased to announce the election of 14 new Fellows of the Econometric Society.
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.
Statement from the editors of Econometrica, Quantitative Economics, and Theoretical Economics
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.
We are pleased to announce the following paper has been awarded the 2019 "Best Paper Prize" by the award committee:
"Learning in Network Games," by Jaromír Kovářík, Friederike Mengel, and José Gabriel Romero, Quantitative Economics, Volume 9, Issue 1 (March 2018).
Nominations for Fellow of the Econometric Society are Open
We are pleased to announce that nominations for Fellow of the Econometric Society are now open. The deadline to complete an online nomination for Fellow, including endorsements, is May 31, 2019.
The Econometric Society