The Society warmly congratulates John Nash, Jr., Econometric Society Fellow and a 1994 Nobel Prize winner, for receiving the 2015 Abel Prize for his contributions in the field of partial differential equations.
I would like to inform everyone about some further upcoming changes and our editorial board.
As many of you know, I will be stepping down at the end of June, and Joel Sobel will be the next Editor of Econometrica. Lars Hansen will also be stepping down as Co-Editor at the end of June.
Andy MacLennan (University of Queensland, Australia) was elected by the members of the Council to succeed Margaret Meyer (Oxford University, UK) as an At-Large Member of the Executive Committee. We thank Margaret Meyer for her service and we welcome Andy MacLennan to the Executive Committee.
We are pleased to report the results of the first elections of voting members of the Regional Standing Committees of the Econometric Society.
The newly elected members are:
Africa:
Elyes Jouini (Université Paris-Dauphine)
Australasia:
Simon Grant (University of Queensland)
Kevin Fox (University of New South Wales)
Europe and Other Areas:
Orazio Attanasio (University College London)
Barbara Rossi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
The deadline to vote for the Regional Standing Committee elections is Tuesday, December 23 at midnight Pacific Standard Time. Submit your vote now at https://econometricsociety.org/esballot/regional-ballot/.
Voting is now open for Regional Standing Committee elections. Visit https://econometricsociety.org/esballot/regional-ballot/ to cast your vote by midnight PST December 23, 2014.
Nominations for the Regional Standing Committee elections close on November 24. To nominate a candidate please go to https://econometricsociety.org/esballot/regional-nomination/ .
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2014 Election of Officers and Council.
Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University, has been elected Second Vice-President, and will be Vice-President in 2016, and President in 2017.
The following have been elected to the Council.
Europe and Other Areas:
Itzhak Gilboa, Tel Aviv University
Thierry Magnac, Toulouse School of Economics
J. Peter Neary, Oxford University
Rafael Repullo, CEMFI
We are pleased to announce the election of 14 new Fellows of the Econometric Society.
The Society proudly congratulates its 60th President Jean Tirole for receiving the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his pathbreaking work on the analysis of market power and regulation.
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