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Past Congresses

2024

LocationErasmus School of Economics
Programme ChairsGhazala Azmat & Ben Moll
Scientific Programmehttps://www.eea-esem-congresses.org/
Presidential AddressJan Eeckhout - The Value and Profits of Firms
Marshall LectureMarina Halac - Contracting for Coordination
Schumpeter LectureDavid Autor - Does automation replace experts or augment expertise? The answer is yes

2023

LocationUniversitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Programme ChairsSule Alan & Francesco Decarolis
Scientific Programmehttps://eea-esem-2023.org/
Presidential AddressMaristella Botticini - The Beauty of Uncertainty: The Rise of Insurance Contracts and Markets in Medieval Europe
Marshall LectureItzhak Gilboa - Reasoning in the Face of Uncertainty
Schumpeter LectureXavier Gabaix - Economic Networks: New Models, Facts, and Identification Methods

2022

LocationBocconi University, Milan
Programme ChairsMonica Costa Dias & Paolo Surico
Scientific Programmehttps://eea-esem-2022.org/
Presidential AddressOriana Bandiera - Climate-Change Pledges, Actions and Outcomes
Marshall LectureMichèle Tertilt - The Economics of Women’s Rights
Schumpeter LecturePhilipp Kircher - Job Search in the Digital Age

2021

LocationVirtual 
Programme ChairsPhilipp Kircher & Antonella Trigari
Presidential AddressSilvana Tenreyro - Climate-Change Pledges, Actions and Outcomes
Marshall LectureRohini Pande - "If you compete with us, we shan’t marry you,”: The (Mary Paley) Marshall Lecture
Schumpeter LectureThomas Piketty - Global Income Inequality, 1820-2020. The Persistence and Mutation of Extreme Inequality

2020

LocationVirtual
Programme ChairKatrine V. Løken & Vasco M. Carvalho
Presidential AddressPer Krusell - Suboptimal Climate Policy
Marshall LectureAlan Manning - The Measure of Monopsony
Schumpeter LectureAntoinette Schoar - How is Big Data Changing Consumer Financial Markets?

2019

LocationManchester, United Kingdom
Programme ChairBarbara Petrongolo & Ricardo Reis
Presidential AddressKjetil Storesletten - Tax Progressively in Macroeconomics
Marshall LectureRaj Chetty - Improving Equality of Opportunity: New Insights from Big Data
Schumpeter LectureVeronica Guerrieri - Household Balance Sheets and Credit Cycles

2018

LocationCologne, Germany 
Programme ChairNicola Gennaioli & Marta Reynal Querol
Presidential AddressEliana La Ferrara - Aspirations, Social Norms and Development
Marshall LectureSusan Athey - Models of Consumer Choice in Panels with Applications to Mobile Location Data
Schumpeter LectureJaume Ventura - Sharing a Government

2017

LocationLisbon, Portugal
Programme ChairEstella Cantillon & Silvana Tenreyro
Presidential AddressPhilippe Aghion - Rethinking Growth
Marshall LectureAmy Finkelstein - Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?
Schumpeter LectureJohn Van Reenen - Productivity, Management and Innovation

2016

LocationGeneva, Switzerland
Programme ChairPhilippe Bacchetta & Monika Schnitzer
Presidential AddressFabrizio Zilibotti - Growing and Slowing Down Like China
Marshall LectureMark Armstrong - Consumer Search
Schumpeter LectureGeorge-Marios Angeletos - Coordination and Aggregate Demand

2015

LocationMannheim, Germany
Programme ChairVolker Nocke
Presidential AddressRachel Griffith - Gluttony and Sloth? Labour Market Nonseparabilities and the Rise in Obesity
Marshall LectureIlya R Segal - Property Rights and the Efficiency of Bargaining
Schumpeter LectureGiancarlo Corsetti - The Mystery of the Printing Press: Monetary Policy and Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises

2014

LocationToulouse, France
Programme ChairMartin Cripps
Presidential AddressOrazio Attanasio - The Determinants Of The Accumulation Of Human Capital In Developing Countries
Marshall LectureLiran Einav - Can Healthcare Competition Work?
Schumpeter LectureMassimo Marinacci - The Beauty Of Uncertainty

2013

LocationGothenburg, Sweden
Programme ChairMaristella Botticini
Presidential AddressManuel Arellano - Uncertainty, Persistence, and Heterogeneity: A Panel Data Perspective
Marshall LectureEd Glaeser - A World of Cities: Europe, Asia and the Americas
Schumpeter LectureXavier Vives - Can Markets Be Informationally Efficient?

2012

LocationMalaga, Spain
Programme ChairPhilip Lane
Presidential AddressJordi Galí - Notes For A New Guide To Keynes
Marshall LectureMarianne Bertrand - Breaking The Glass Ceiling: The Effects Of Board Quotas On Female Labor Market Outcomes And Family Choices – Evidence From Norway
Schumpeter LectureGilles Saint Paul - On Science And Politics

2011

LocationOslo, Norway
Programme ChairEspen Moen
Presidential AddressChristopher Pissarides - Employment In Europe
Marshall LectureRandy Wright - Really. Really Rational Inattention: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Sticky Prices
Schumpeter LecturePer Krusell - Economic Analyses Of Climate Change

2010

LocationGlasgow, United Kingdom
Programme ChairDavid Stromberg
Presidential AddressTimothy Besley - Fragile States And Development Policy
Marshall LectureEsther Duflo - Gender Equality And Development
Schumpeter LectureOrazio Attanasio - House Prices And Consumption Movements In The UK
Adam Smith LectureJoseph Stiglitz - Rethinking Macroeconomics: What Failed, and How to Repair It

2009

LocationBarcelona, Spain
Programme ChairAntonio Ciccone
Presidential AddressNicholas Stern -  Imperfections In The Economics Of Public Policy, Imperfections In Markets, And Climate Change
Marshall LecturePinelopi Goldberg - International Property Rights Protection In Developing Countries: The Case Of Pharmaceuticals
Schumpeter LectureCharles Bean - The Great Moderation, The Great Panic And The Great Contraction

2008

LocationMilan, Italy
Programme ChairArmin Falk
Presidential AddressErnst Fehr -  On The Economics And Biology Of Trust
Marshall LectureJames Heckman - Psychology Of Inequality And Human Development 
Schumpeter LectureDouglas Bernheim - Behavioral welfare Economics

2007

LocationBudapest, Hungary
Programme ChairGiancarlo Corsetti
Presidential AddressGuido Tabellini - Institutions And Culture
Marshall LectureLuigi Guiso - Social Capital As Good Culture
Schumpeter LectureRoland Benabou - Ideology

2006

LocationVienna, Austria
Programme ChairJaume Ventura
Presidential AddressAndreu Mas-Colell - On Commitment And Breakdown In Bargaining Among the Many
Marshall LectureRaquel Fernandez - Women, Work, And Culture
Schumpeter LectureJohn Moore - Partial Contracts

2005

LocationAmsterdam, The Netherlands
Programme ChairLucrezia Reichlin
Presidential AddressMathias Dewtripont - Costly Communication And Incentives
Marshall LectureMarco Pagano - Shareholder Protection, Stock Market Development, And Politics
Schumpeter LecturePhilippe Aghion - Appropriate Growth Policy: A Unifying Framework

2004

LocationMadrid, Spain
Programme ChairFabrizio Zilibotti
Presidential AddressRichard Blundell - How Revealing Is Revealed Preference?
Marshall LectureDale Mortensen - Innovation, Growth And Labor Market Policies
Schumpeter LectureBengt Homstrom - Understanding Coporate Governance

2003

LocationStockholm, Sweden
Programme ChairTore Ellingsen
Presidential AddressTorsten Persson - Consequences Of Constitutions
Marshall LectureDaron Acemoglu - Kleptocracy And Divide-And-Rule
Schumpeter LectureTimothy Besley - Paying Politicians

2002

LocationVenice, Italy
Programme ChairThierry Verdier
Presidential AddressPeter Neary - Globalization And Market Structure
Marshall LecturePaul Klemperer - Using And Abusing Economic Theory
Schumpeter LectureAlberto Alesina - The Size Of Nations

2001

LocationLausanne, Switzerland
Programme ChairJörgen Weibull
Presidential AddressJean Tirole
Marshall LectureMatthew Rabin  -  A Perspective On Psychology And Economics
Schumpeter LectureErnst Fehr -  Psychological Foundations Of Incentives

2000

LocationBolzano, Italy
Programme ChairDanny Quah
Presidential AddressJames Mirrlees - The Economics Of Imperfectly Rational Agents
Marshall LectureAvinash Dixit - Games of Monetary and Fiscal Interactions In The European Monetary Union
Schumpeter LectureAriel Rubinstein - A Theorist's View Of Experimental Economics

1999

LocationSantiago de Compostela, Spain
Programme ChairPatrick Rey
Presidential AddressPartha Dasgupta - Reproductive Externalities And Fertility Behaviour
Marshall LectureEric Maskin - Auctions, Privatization, And Development
Schumpeter LectureKarl Goran Maler - Non Linear Systems In Enviromental Economics

1998

LocationBerlin, Germany
Programme ChairGerald Roland
Presidential AddressJean-Jacques Laffont - Political Economy, Information and Incentives
Marshall LectureTorsten Persson - The Size And Scope Of Government: Comparative Politics With Rational Politicians
Schumpeter LectureRoger Myerson - Theoretical Compasrisons Of Electoral Systems

1997

LocationToulouse, France
Programme ChairPhilippe Jehiel
Presidential AddressReinhard Selten - Features Of Experimentally Observed Bounded Rationality
Marshall LectureTruman Bewley - There Is No Harm In Looking: A Close Look At Wage Rigidity
Schumpeter LectureWerner Hildenbrand - How Relevant Are Specifications of Behavioural Relations on the Micro-Level for Modelling the Time Path Of Population Aggregates?

1996

LocationIstanbul, Turkey
Programme ChairSweder van Wijnbergen
Presidential AddressDavid Newberry - Privatisation And Liberalisation Of Network Utilities
Marshall LectureDani Rodrik - The 'Paradoxes' Of The Successful State
Schumpeter LectureAndrei Shleifer - Government In Transition

1995

LocationPrague, Czech Republic
Programme ChairDamien Neven
Presidential AddressLouis Phlips - Game-Theoretic Contributions To Competition Policy
Marshall LectureJean-Jacques Laffont - Game Theory And Structural Economics: The Case Of Auction Data
Schumpeter LectureJohn Sutton - Technology and Market Structure: Theory And History

1994

LocationMaastricht, The Netherlands
Programme ChairUrs Schweizer
Presidential AddressRoger Guesnerie - Current Challenges For Public Economics
Marshall LectureJames Mirrlees - Private Risk And Public Action
Schumpeter LectureMartin Feldstein - Taxes, Goverment Spending, And Economic Growth

1993

LocationHelsinki, Finland
Programme ChairDaniel Cohen
Presidential AddressMervyn King - Debt Deflation: Theory And Evidence
Marshall LectureLars E.O. Svensson - Fixed Exchange Rates: What Have We Learned?
Schumpeter LectureJean Tirole - On Banking And Intermediation

1992

LocationDublin, Ireland
Programme ChairJohn Vickers
Presidential AddressMartin Hellwig - The Challenge Of Monetary Theory
Marshall LectureRoger Guersnerie - Successes And Failures In Coordinating Expectations
Schumpeter LectureCharles Goodhart - Can We Improve The Structure Of Financial Systems?

1991

LocationCambridge, United Kingdom
Programme ChairFrancesco Giavazzi
Presidential AddressAssar Lindbeck - Macroeconomic Theory And The Labour Market
Marshall LectureJoseph Stiglitz - Marcoeconomics And Financial Markets
Schumpeter LectureElhanan Helpman - Endogenous Growth Theory

1990

LocationLisbon, Portugal
Programme ChairThorvaldur Gylfason
Presidential AddressAgnar Sandmo - Economists And The Welfare State
Marshall LectureNicholas Stern - Public Policy And The Economics Of The Development
Schumpeter LectureJon Elster - Local Justice: How Instructions Allocate Scarce Resources

1989

LocationAugsburg, Germany
Programme ChairJohn Sutton
Presidential AddressAnthony B Atkinson -Public Economics and the Economic Public
Marshall LectureClaude Henry - Microeconomics and Public Decision Making when Geography Matters
Schumpeter LectureMichael Bruno - Economic Analysis and the Political Economy of Policy Formation

1988

LocationBologna, Italy
Programme ChairJohn Sutton
Presidential AddressEdmond Malinvaud - Observation In Macroeconomic Model Building
Marshall LectureWerner Hildenbrand - Facts And Ideas In Microeconomic Theory
Schumpeter LecturePaul Bairoch - The Paradox Of Economic History: 'Economic' Laws And History

1987

LocationCopenhagen, Denmark
Programme ChairCharles Wyplosz
Presidential AddressJanos Kornai - Individual Freedom And Reform Of The Socialist Economy
Marshall LectureAmartya Sen - Freedom Of Choice: Concept And Content
Schumpeter LectureAssar Linbeck - Individual Freedom And Welfare State Policy

1986

LocationVienna, Austria
Programme ChairLouis Philips
Presidential AddressJacques H. Drèze - Underemployment Equilibria: From Theory To Econometrics And Policy
Marshall LectureEdmond Malinvaud - The Legacy Of European Stagflation
Schumpeter LectureHerbert Giersch - Economic Policies In The Age Schumpeter