2015 Election of Officers and Council

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Submitted by sashi@econometr... on Wed, 2015-11-04 09:03
Monday, November 9, 2015

We are pleased to announce the results of the 2015 Election of Officers and Council.

Eddie Dekel, Tel Aviv University and Northwestern University, has been elected President.

Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University, has been elected First Vice-President.

Tim Besley, London School of Economics, has been elected Second Vice-President, and will be Vice-President in 2017, and President in 2018.

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

The following have been elected to the Council.

Yair Mundlak

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Submitted by sashi@econometr... on Tue, 2015-11-03 18:07
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

The Economics profession lost one of its most significant and distinguished intellectual leaders with the passing of Yair Mundlak.  Yair was a friend and valued colleague to everyone in the profession and his work established many of the foundations of modern econometric research.  He will be remembered not only for his intellectual contributions but also for his kindness and the welcoming personality that he extended to everyone.  He taught legions of professionals and his work touched all scholars of economics.

Harris Schlesinger

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Submitted by sashi@econometr... on Mon, 2015-10-19 10:49
Monday, October 19, 2015

Harris Schlesinger died September 29, 2015 at age 63. Harris was Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Alabama and he held the Frank Park Samford Chair of Insurance. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He began his academic career as Assistant Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University. He then became Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois before taking his current position at the University of Alabama.

Che-Lin Su

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Submitted by sashi@econometr... on Mon, 2015-08-03 19:11
Monday, August 3, 2015

It is with great sadness that we write this news.  After a brief battle with an aggressive cancer, Che-Lin Su succumbed on Friday surrounded by his family.  Che-Lin was an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.  He was a large part of the Institute for Computational Economics over the last 8 years and was a pioneer in using constrained optimization for structural estimation.