Graduate Student Contest
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Every year the Society sponsors prizes for outstanding papers by
graduate students at its annual meeting. Generally, prizes total 3,000 euros.
- Winner: Choongryul Yang, University of Texas at Austin, "Rational Inattention, Menu Costs, and Multi-Product Firms:Micro Evidence and Aggregate Implications"
- Finalist: Alistair Macaulay, Nuffield College, Oxford University, "Cyclical Attention to Saving"
- Finalist: Benny Hartwig, Deutsche Bundesbank and Goethe University Frankfurt, "Robust Inference in Time-Varying Structural VAR Models: The DC-Cholesky Multivariate Stochastic Volatility Model"
2018-2019
This contest was held in conjunction with what would have been the 2020 conference in Warsaw. The results:Previous Winners
The David Kendrick Prize
This award is given on an irregular basis to those individuals who have who stood out for their contributions to the field.
The Society awarded the David A. Kendrick Distinguished Service Award in 2020 to Leigh Tesfatsion for her pioneering contributions to different areas of Computational Economics, in particular to Agent-based Computational Economics. She is a Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Economics at Iowa State University (ISU) and also a Professor Emerita (Courtesy) of Mathematics and a Professor Emerita (Courtesy) of Electrical and Computer Engineering at ISU. Leigh has published highly influential papers and books highlighting the potential of agent-based simulation as a method for the analysis of economic processes as an open-ended dynamic system of interacting agents. She has demonstrated this potential in different areas of application. In recent years Leigh has published extensively on the analysis of electric power market design using an agent-based computational platform.
Previous Winners
Tools For Computational Economists
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There are many sites of use on the Internet for those interested in
computational economics. These include links to
program libraries and
software.
Details About The Society
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The society was founded in 1995 and is a 501(c)3 organization. Our major
activity is our annual conference; it typically draws 300-400 participants.
The president of the Society is Herbert Dawid
and the past presidents are Thomas Lubik, Jasmina Arifovic, Cars Hommes, Michel Juillard, Robert J. Tetlow, Carl Chiarella,
Manfred Gilli, Stephen Turnovsky, Berç Rustem, Hans Amman, Ken Judd, and
David Kendrick. Those interested in membership in the Society should contact
Bill Goffe, the Secretary-Treasurer. The
Advisory Council consists of the officers, the
editors of the journals, and some elected and appointed members. The By-Laws formally describe the Society and conference
organizers should read the guidelines for
our conferences. Finally, we offer some job listings in computational
economics.
Membership Benefits and Costs
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Members of the Society for Computational Economics are eligible for
reduced rate subscriptions to
Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Members are also automatically added to the "scelist" electronic mailing
list (non-members are welcomed to the list too). There is also a
web page
where one can sign up.
Dues are $10 a year. You can pay by check or by PayPal: