EEA's MinE Committee is launching a new mentoring programme for graduate students and early-career researchers who identify as a minority in economics. This includes, but is not limited to, ethnic minorities in Europe , LGBTQ+ individuals, and people with disabilities.We welcome mentors from academia, governments, and...
Author(s) Lorenzo StancaThis paper investigates a novel behavioral feature of recursive preferences: aversion to risks that persist over time, or simply correlation aversion. Greater persistence provides information about future consumption but reduces opportunities to hedge consumption risk. I show that, for recursive preferences that exhibit a ...
Author(s) Klaus Gugler, Lukas Pirnbacher, Florian SzücsWe exploit the regulatory environment in the Austrian pharmaceutical market to study the effects of price regulation on market outcomes and consumer welfare. We find that product acquisitions of drug producers have a differential impact in regulated and unregulated market segments. Regression res...
The WinE Committee has opened self-nominations for the positions on the Women in Economics Committee (WinE) Committee.Candidates should be available for a 3-year term from April 1, 2026.Please note that the WinE Committee welcomes self-nominations from both female and male economists.The WinE Committee is chaired by Professor Paula Bustos (UPF). The curren...
Author(s) Stéphane Auray, Aurélien Eyquem, Bertrand Garbinti, Jonathan Goupille-LebretWe study the dynamics of income and wealth inequality using a heterogeneous-agent model that combines endogenous portfolio choice, a granular representation of the tax-and-transfer system, and a reduced-form mechanism linking markups to top incomes through entrepre...
EEA's MinE Committee is launching a new mentoring programme for graduate students and early-career researchers who identify as a minority in economics. This includes, but is not limited to, ethnic minorities in Europe , LGBTQ+ individuals, and people with disabilities.We welcome mentors from academia, governments, and...
EEA is pleased to announce through its Education Committee, the 5th edition of its teaching prizes to those academic economists who have made a significant contribution to spreading knowledge on economics through their teaching.The EEA offers five prizes this year:1. The EEA Award for Exceptional Teaching - This award is offered in three categories.Early c...
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 14:00 - 16:00 CETResearch Skills and Career Development Programme A Masterclass for Early Career Faculty Women (defined as having obtained their PhDs between 2021-2026)Instructor: Professor Almudena Sevilla (London School of Economics)Early and Mid-career faculty — especially women — don’t lack expertise. What...
Roger Guesnerie, a past president of the EEA, passed away in Paris, France on January 4, 2026. He was a major figure in theoretical economics whose work shaped several core areas of the discipline, including general equilibrium theory, public economics, incentive theory, macroeconomic fluctuations, the theory of expectations, and climate economics. Bo...
In 1991, the EEA created a medal to be awarded once every 2 years (even years) to the author(s) of an outstanding article published in the Association's journal during the two preceding years. It has been named the Hicks-Tinbergen medal to make it clear that the EEA stands for both theoretical and empirical work in economics in Europe. It was awarded f...
