We are pleased to announce the results of the 2016 Election of Officers and Council.

Drew Fudenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been elected President.

Timothy Besley, London School of Economics, has been elected First Vice-President.

Stephen Morris, Princeton University, has been elected Second Vice-President. He will be First Vice-President in 2018, and President in 2019.

Bernard Salanié, Columbia University, has been elected Executive Vice-President.

The following have been elected to the Council.

The Econometric Society adopted a "Best Paper Prize" this year 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 theoretical and empirical quantitative economics and economic theory. Winners are selected by the journals' editors and co-editors.

We are pleased to announce the following papers have been awarded the 2015 "Best Paper Prize":

The selection committee for 2016  (Costas Meghir, chair; Elhanan Helpman, and Alessandro Lizzeri) awarded the Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society to Benjamin Handel, Igal Hendel and Michael Whinston for their article, "Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection versus Reclassification Risk", Econometrica, 83(4), July 2015, 1261-1313.

http://econometricsociety.org/society/awards

The University of Macedonia organizes a Summer School entitled “4th Short Course: Dynamic Programming – Theory, Computation and Empirical Applications”. The main objective of the event is to provide advanced training for young researchers on important aspects of economics and econometrics. The Course will take place in (Thessaloniki, Greece) from July 4th till July 8th, 2016. 

Visit http://sce2016.uom.gr/ for more details.