The Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society 2024
The Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESAM) is a conference organised by the Econometric Society aimed at bringing together economists and econometricians from the Australasian region and beyond.
These meetings serve as a platform for presenting research findings, exchanging ideas, and fostering collaborations among scholars in both fields. The event includes contributed and invited papers on a wide range of topics, underscoring its importance for academic exchange and development in the econometric and economic communities.
Plenary speakers
Professor Larry Samuelson, Department of Economics, Yale University
Larry Samuelson is the First Vice President and Incoming 2025 President of the Econometric Society. He works in economic theory, with a particular interest in game theory. His areas of specialisation include the evolutionary foundations of economic behaviour, the theory of repeated games, and non-Bayesian models of behaviour. He has served as a co-editor of Econometrica as well as the American Economic Review, and in addition to being a Fellow of the Econometric Society, he is also a Fellow of the American Academy for the Arts and Sciences and the President of the Game Theory Society.
Professor Siwan Anderson, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia
Professor Anderson’s research focuses on development economics, particularly micro-level institutions in developing countries, and gender economics, emphasising women’s roles in the economy. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics, Faculty Associate of the Center for Effective Global Action, Fellow of Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, Associate of Theoretical Research in Development Economics, and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. She was the first woman to receive the John Rae Prize from the Canadian Economics Association, recognising her significant contributions to economic research and advancing understanding of global development issues.
Professor Alison Booth, Research School of Economics, Australian National University
Professor Booth’s research spans labour and experimental economics, with interests in cultural influences on economic preferences, gender economics, and imperfect competition in labour markets. She is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, the Institute of Labor Economics, and the Institute for Employment Research. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the Econometric Society, and a Founding Fellow of the European Association of Labour Economists. She received the Distinguished Fellow Award from the Economic Society of Australia and was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association in 2017.
Xiaohong Chen, Yale University
Xiaohong is the Malcolm K. Brachman Professor of Economics and Professor of Management, at Yale University. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the International Association for Applied Econometrics, and the Journal of Econometrics. She is known for her research in sieve estimation and inference on semiparametric and nonparametric models and has received many awards for her work, including the 2017 China Economics Prize. She is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Econometrics and has served as an associate editor for Econometrica, Econometric Theory, Quantitative Economics, and the Review of Economics Studies.
Professor Benjamin Golub, Northwestern University
Professor Golub’s research focuses on social and economic networks, particularly in models of social learning, local public goods, peer effects, and the formation of social capital. He is the recipient of the Calvó-Armengol International Prize in Economics and was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He was an Associate Editor at Theoretical Economics (2017–2020) and the Journal of Economic Theory (2019–2022). He is also the Series Co-organizer of the Network Science in Economics Conference and the Networks workshop at the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum.
Oliver Linton, Cambridge University
Oliver Linton is a Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University and Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. He has published two books and more than a hundred articles on econometrics, statistics, and empirical finance. In 2015 he was a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the British Academy. He was President of the Society for Financial Econometrics from 2021-2023. He was a lead expert in the U.K. Government Office for Science Foresight project: “The future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets”, which was published in 2012. He is currently serving as Chair of the Faculty of Economics.
Peter C. B. Phillips, Yale University
Peter is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale University, Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, and a Distinguished Term Professor at Singapore Management University. He is the founder and editor of Econometric Theory and the founding Editor of Themes in Modern Econometrics for Cambridge University Press. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of Financial Econometrics, the Journal of Econometrics, the British Academy, and Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists.
The event is co-chaired by Heather Anderson, Lata Gangadharan, Jiti Gao and Yves Zenou.
Event Details
- Date:
- 4 December 2024 at 9:00 am – 6 December 2024 at 5:00 pm
- Venue:
- Monash University Caulfield campus
- Categories:
- Econometrics and Business Statistics; General
Description
The Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESAM) is a conference organised by the Econometric Society aimed at bringing together economists and econometricians from the Australasian region and beyond.
These meetings serve as a platform for presenting research findings, exchanging ideas, and fostering collaborations among scholars in both fields. The event includes contributed and invited papers on a wide range of topics, underscoring its importance for academic exchange and development in the econometric and economic communities.
Plenary speakers
Professor Larry Samuelson, Department of Economics, Yale University
Larry Samuelson is the First Vice President and Incoming 2025 President of the Econometric Society. He works in economic theory, with a particular interest in game theory. His areas of specialisation include the evolutionary foundations of economic behaviour, the theory of repeated games, and non-Bayesian models of behaviour. He has served as a co-editor of Econometrica as well as the American Economic Review, and in addition to being a Fellow of the Econometric Society, he is also a Fellow of the American Academy for the Arts and Sciences and the President of the Game Theory Society.
Professor Siwan Anderson, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia
Professor Anderson’s research focuses on development economics, particularly micro-level institutions in developing countries, and gender economics, emphasising women’s roles in the economy. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics, Faculty Associate of the Center for Effective Global Action, Fellow of Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, Associate of Theoretical Research in Development Economics, and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. She was the first woman to receive the John Rae Prize from the Canadian Economics Association, recognising her significant contributions to economic research and advancing understanding of global development issues.
Professor Alison Booth, Research School of Economics, Australian National University
Professor Booth’s research spans labour and experimental economics, with interests in cultural influences on economic preferences, gender economics, and imperfect competition in labour markets. She is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, the Institute of Labor Economics, and the Institute for Employment Research. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the Econometric Society, and a Founding Fellow of the European Association of Labour Economists. She received the Distinguished Fellow Award from the Economic Society of Australia and was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association in 2017.
Xiaohong Chen, Yale University
Xiaohong is the Malcolm K. Brachman Professor of Economics and Professor of Management, at Yale University. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the International Association for Applied Econometrics, and the Journal of Econometrics. She is known for her research in sieve estimation and inference on semiparametric and nonparametric models and has received many awards for her work, including the 2017 China Economics Prize. She is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Econometrics and has served as an associate editor for Econometrica, Econometric Theory, Quantitative Economics, and the Review of Economics Studies.
Professor Benjamin Golub, Northwestern University
Professor Golub’s research focuses on social and economic networks, particularly in models of social learning, local public goods, peer effects, and the formation of social capital. He is the recipient of the Calvó-Armengol International Prize in Economics and was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He was an Associate Editor at Theoretical Economics (2017–2020) and the Journal of Economic Theory (2019–2022). He is also the Series Co-organizer of the Network Science in Economics Conference and the Networks workshop at the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum.
Oliver Linton, Cambridge University
Oliver Linton is a Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University and Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. He has published two books and more than a hundred articles on econometrics, statistics, and empirical finance. In 2015 he was a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the British Academy. He was President of the Society for Financial Econometrics from 2021-2023. He was a lead expert in the U.K. Government Office for Science Foresight project: “The future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets”, which was published in 2012. He is currently serving as Chair of the Faculty of Economics.
Peter C. B. Phillips, Yale University
Peter is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale University, Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, and a Distinguished Term Professor at Singapore Management University. He is the founder and editor of Econometric Theory and the founding Editor of Themes in Modern Econometrics for Cambridge University Press. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of Financial Econometrics, the Journal of Econometrics, the British Academy, and Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists.
The event is co-chaired by Heather Anderson, Lata Gangadharan, Jiti Gao and Yves Zenou.