AEA Continuing Education Program
The AEA began a Continuing Education Program held immediately after the annual meeting in January 2009. It sold out. The program aims to help mid-career economists with heavy teaching loads or considerable administrative responsibilities maintain the value of their human capital. It is tailored to faculty at liberal arts colleges and teaching-oriented state universities that usually have fewer research opportunities than colleagues at universities with economics PhD programs. The lecturers are leading scholars who also are excellent expositors. The focus is on content to help improve teaching and research.
Each program is a dozen hours of lectures. The 2009 programs were on cross-section econometrics (Guido Imbens and Jeffrey Wooldridge), monetary policy (Larry Christiano and Patrick Kehoe), and experimental economics (John Morgan and Charles Plott).
The three topics for January 2010 in Atlanta are time-series econometrics (James Stock, Harvard University and Mark Watson, Princeton University), financial economics (Hyun Shin and Harrison Hong, both of Princeton University), and behavioral economics (Matthew Rabin of the University of California-Berkeley and David Laibson, Harvard University). The 2010 program will be held at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis on January 5, 6 and 7. Because the Marriott is the only ASSA meetings hotel offering convention hotel rates through January 6, individuals attending the Continuing Education Program should book into the Marriott. Registrants select one of the three simultaneous sessions. The programs begin with a two-hour session at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, January 5, 2009, run all day Wednesday, January 6, and conclude with a morning session on Thursday, January 7. Shuttle buses to Atlanta’s Hartsfield Airport will depart from the Marriott at 12:15 and 12:30 pm on January 7; tickets can be purchased on-site. Continental breakfast on January 6 and 7, and lunch on January 6 are provided. The proceedings will be videotaped and available to AEA members on the web. Videotapes of the 2009 continuing education programs are on the Association’s website. Click here for access.
Continuing Education Program participation is limited to 350 in 2010. Registration is $95 for AEA members, $295 for non-members. Registration is accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Participants pay for their own hotel rooms.
2010 Continuing Education Program Lecturers
Time-series Econometrics
James H. Stock. Professor Stock is chair of the Department of Economics at Harvard. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the NBER, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was Chair of the Board of Editors of the Review of Economics and Statistics for ten years, and has been co-chair of the NBER-NSF Conference on Time Series since 2001. He is the co-author (with Mark Watson) of Introduction to Econometrics (2007).
Mark W. Watson. Professor Watson is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the NBER and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently a co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. He is co-author (with James Stock) of Introduction to Econometrics (2007).
Financial Economics
Harrison Hong. Professor Hong is the John H. Scully ’66 Professor of Economics and Finance. He was awarded the 2009 Fischer Black Prize by the American Finance Association to the person under age 40 who has contributed the most to the theory and practice of finance, and is a Director of the American Finance Association. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Intermediation.
Hyun Song Shin. Professor Shin is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics and Associate Chair in the Department of Economics at Princeton University. Before coming to Princeton he was Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the British Academy, and the 2008 winner of the Richard E. Quandt Undergraduate Teaching Prize at Princeton. He was chair of the Editorial Board of the Review of Economics Studies from 1999-2003.
Behavioral Economics
David Laibson. Professor Laibson is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and an NBER Research Associate. He is a Harvard College Professor and won the 1997 Phi Betta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He has given the Theodore Schultze Lecture at the University of Chicago, the Lionel Robbins Lecture at the London School of Economics, and the Royal Economic Society’s Frank Hahn Lecture.
Matthew Rabin. Professor Rabin is the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics at the University of California-Berkeley, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a MacArthur Foundation Fellow from 2001 – 2005, and won the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal in 2001. He teaches intermediate micro, advanced micro theory, and game theory to undergraduates at Berkeley.
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