SITE 2023

Stanford Economics is proud to host its annual Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) conference from July 31 to September 16, 2023, on the Stanford campus with sessions on a broad range of economic topics – bringing together established and emerging scholars to present leading-edge economic research, to educate, and to collaborate.
- Schedule of conference sessions are listed below.
- Register to attend a SITE session – no fee required. Confirmation and details will be sent to registrants 1 week prior to session start date.
- A certificate of attendance is available upon request. Contact Charles Chau at siteworkshop [at] stanford.educlass="spamspan" for more details or if you have any other questions.
Program Overview
- Session 1: Global Capital Allocation (July 31-August 1, 2023)
- Session 2: Market Design (August 3-August 4, 2023)
- Session 3: Dynamic Games, Contracts, and Markets (August 7-August 9, 2023)
- Session 4: Psychology and Economics (August 8-August 9, 2023)
- Session 5: Experimental Economics (August 10-August 11, 2023)
- Session 6: Political Economic Theory (August 10-August 11, 2023)
- Session 7: Politically Feasible Environmental and Energy Policy (August 14-August 15, 2023)
- Session 8: Climate Finance, Innovation, and Challenges for Policy (August 16-August 17, 2023)
- Session 9: Fiscal Sustainability (August 21-August 22, 2023)
- Session 10: Financial Regulation (August 28-August 30, 2023)
- Session 11: IO of Healthcare and Credit Markets (August 30-August 31, 2023)
- Session 12: The Macroeconomics of Uncertainty and Volatility (September 6-September 8, 2023)
- Session 13: New Frontiers in Asset Pricing (September 6-September 8, 2023)
- Session 14: The Micro and Macro of Labor Markets (September 7-September 8, 2023)
- Session 15: Frontiers of Macroeconomic Research (September 11-September 13, 2023)
- Session 16: Labor Markets and Policies (September 14-September 16, 2023)
- Session 17: Gender (September 15-September 16, 2023)
Upcoming Sessions
This session is on international macroeconomics and finance, focusing on global capital allocations, the role of the dollar, the emergence of China, and tax havens. Both empirics and theory.
This session seeks to bring together researchers in economics, computer science, and operations research working on market design. We’re aiming for a roughly even split between theory papers and empirical and experimental papers. In addition to faculty members, we also invite graduate students on the job market to submit their paper for shorter graduate student talks.
This session brings together microeconomic theorists working on dynamic games and contracts with more applied theorists working in finance, industrial organization, personnel economics, and other fields. We aim for a roughly equal split between pure theory and applied papers. The conference seeks to create a community of people working on related problems, so we expect speakers to stay…
This session brings together researchers working on issues at the intersection of psychology and economics. The segment will focus on evidence of and explanations for non-standard choice patterns, as well as the positive and normative implications of those patterns in a wide range of economic decision-making contexts, such as lifecycle consumption and savings, workplace productivity,…
This session will be dedicated to advances in experimental economics combining laboratory and field-experimental methodologies with theoretical and psychological insights on decision-making, strategic interaction and policy. We are inviting papers in lab experiments, field experiments and their combination that test theory, demonstrate the importance of psychological phenomena, and…
This session will bring together researchers from political science and economics who apply economic theory to the study of politics. This includes work in the areas of voting theory, political bargaining, policy-making and implementation, lobbying and regulation, and the media and information environment in which politics takes place. The session will encourage productive dialogue…
This session will feature empirical papers evaluating environmental and energy (E&E) policy decisions by both governments and firms. The session will focus on papers that deliver useful and politically feasible insights on how to make E&E policy more efficient and…
The session would bring together research on how to best finance companies that innovate on green technologies, the pricing of climate risks in financial markets, banks' exposures to climate risk and their regulation, the impact of monetary policy on climate change, and policies more broadly that help mitigate climate changes.
As governments emerge from the pandemic, they are dealing with major challenges in regards to fiscal sustainability. We want to organize a session that focuses on topics at the intersection of monetary policy, fiscal policy and sustainability, and the valuation of government debt. What role do central banks play in creating fiscal space for governments? Is there a possibility of fiscal…
This session discusses the latest advances in theoretical and empirical issues related to financial regulation, defined broadly. Topics will include, but will not be limited to, connections of regulation for intermediaries, households and policymakers in the US and outside the US.
This session will bring together researchers working on the IO of healthcare and credit markets. These markets share similar features, including selection, market power, behavioral consumers, among others. We believe there are opportunities for fruitful interaction between researchers studying these environments.
The session will cover recent work on the causes and effects of changes in volatility and uncertainty. This can cover everything from the COVID pandemic, Monetary, Fiscal shocks to Wars, and Regulatory changes. This session will focus on measuring changes in uncertainty, evaluating its mechanisms and impacts on firms, consumers, national or global economies, discussing policy…
This session is for asset pricing papers on the frontier of the discipline. Particular areas of focus are macrofinance, computation, machine learning, and climate finance. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following: asset pricing, investor heterogeneity, learning and ambiguity, new preference structures for pricing models, or using machine learning to understand the…
The idea of this session is to bring together labor economists and macroeconomists with interests in labor markets with two goals. The first goal is to be a venue to discuss the latest research about labor markets. The second goal is to promote intellectual exchange among scholars working on similar topics, but with different approaches. Specific topics will depend on the submissions. …
The goal of the session is to bring together researchers working in macroeconomics, broadly defined. The session will focus on both short-run macroeconomic fluctuations, as well as open questions in economic growth. We welcome submissions that are quantitative, theoretical or empirical in nature. We hope that the diverse research topics within macroeconomics covered in the session will…
This session offers a forum for scholars interested in the use of general equilibrium models disciplined by micro data to carefully analyze important labor market issues and reforms to address them. The use of these models to conduct comprehensive quantitative analyses of policy reforms is still in its infancy. The goal of this session is to bring together a diverse group of scholars,…
This session will be dedicated to understanding how gender influences economic outcomes and decision-making. We invite submissions of papers whose main focus is on gender, regardless of field, to foster dialogue across fields. In addition to senior faculty members, invited presenters will include junior faculty as well as graduate students.
SITE is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation with additional support from the Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences Department of Economics, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.