The Executive Committee agreed to endorse EconJobMarket.org, a non-profit central repository for job market materials, in the understanding the Society will not be restricted from endorsing other international electronic job market platforms. 

We are pleased to announce the results of the 2008 Election of Officers and Council.

Bengt Holmström has been elected Second Vice-President, and will be First Vice-President in 2010, and President in 2011.

The following have been elected or reelected to the Council:

Europe and Other Areas
Orazio Attanasio, Jacques Cremer, Mathias Dewatripont, and Margaret Meyer.

Far East
Hidehiko Ichimura

Latin America
Cesar Martinelli

The Frisch Medal has been established by the Econometric Society to encourage the creation of good applied work and its submission to Econometrica. It is given every two years for an applied article (empirical or theoretical) published in Econometrica during the past five years.

We are pleased to announce the election of 16 new Fellows of the Econometric Society.  Of the 433 Fellows eligible to vote 305 Fellows participated in the Fellows election.

Fernando Alvarez
Department of Economics
University of Chicago
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, Illinois  60636
USA

Lawrence Ausubel
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
Tydings Hall, Room 3105
College Park, Maryland  20742-7211
USA