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
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
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
I am pleased to announce that Daron Acemoglou and Dilip Mookherjee have been elected as At-large members representing the Council of the Econometric Society effective January 1st, 2019. They succeed Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Andrew McLennan. 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
Following are the results of the 2018 Election of Officers and Council.
Stephen Morris, Princeton University, has been elected President.
Orazio Attanasio, University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies, has been elected First Vice President.
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Yale University, has been elected Second Vice President.
Enrique Sentana, CEMFI, has been elected Executive Vice President.
The following have been elected to the Council.
The Society is pleased to announce the election of 22 new Fellows of the Econometric Society.
We are pleased to announce that the next World Congress of the Econometric Society will take place at Bocconi University in Milan (Italy) on August 17-21, 2020. The Programme Chairs are Victor Chernozhukov (MIT), Johannes Hörner (Yale) and Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi) and the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee is Massimiliano Marcellino.
The Econometric Society would like to congratulate William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer, both Fellows of the Econometric Society, for being awarded the Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018. Prof. Nordhaus (Yale University), elected Fellow of the Society in 1984, was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis. Prof.
The Society reports with great sadness the passing of James Mirrlees, Nobel Prize winner in 1996, who served as its President in 1982.
James Mirrlees (1936-2018), by John Vickers, University of Oxford
http://www.jamesamirrlees.com/obituaries
The Econometric Society is pleased to report that Professor Costis Daskalakis, a member of the Society, has been awarded the 2018 Rolf Nevalinna Prize. The prize is awarded for outstanding contributions on the mathematical aspects of informational sciences. Among his contributions acknowledged by the prize is his 2017 Econometrica paper, “Strong Duality for a Multiple Good Monopolist” (with Alan Deckelbaum and Christos Tzamos).
The Econometric Society