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

Upcoming Sessions

Jul 31 -
Aug 1
Date
Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 9:00am - Tue, Aug 1, 2023, 6:00pm PDT
Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Z301, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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.

Aug 3 -
Aug 4
Date
Thu, Aug 3, 2023, 9:00am - Fri, Aug 4, 2023, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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.

Aug 7 -
Aug 9
Date
Mon, Aug 7, 2023, 9:00am - Wed, Aug 9, 2023, 5:30pm PDT
Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, C102, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Aug 8 -
Aug 9
Date
Tue, Aug 8, 2023, 9:00am - Wed, Aug 9, 2023, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305

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,…

Aug 10 -
Aug 11
Date
Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 9:00am - Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Aug 10 -
Aug 11
Date
Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 9:00am - Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 5:00am PDT
Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, M104, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Aug 14 -
Aug 15
Date
Mon, Aug 14, 2023, 9:00am - Tue, Aug 15, 2023, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Aug 16 -
Aug 17
Date
Wed, Aug 16, 2023, 9:00am - Thu, Aug 17, 2023, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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.

Aug 21 -
Aug 22
Date
Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 9:00am - Tue, Aug 22, 2023, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Z301, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Aug 28 -
Aug 30
Date
Mon, Aug 28, 2023, 9:00am - Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 12:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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. 

Aug 30 -
Aug 31
Date
Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 1:00pm - Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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. 

Sep 6 -
Sep 8
Date
Wed, Sep 6, 2023, 9:00am - Fri, Sep 8, 2023, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Sep 6 -
Sep 8
Date
Wed, Sep 6, 2023, 9:00am - Fri, Sep 8, 2023, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Herbert Hoover Memorial Building, Room 330, 434 Galvez Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Sep 7 -
Sep 8
Date
Thu, Sep 7, 2023, 9:00am - Fri, Sep 8, 2023, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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. …

Sep 11 -
Sep 13
Date
Mon, Sep 11, 2023, 9:00am - Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Sep 14 -
Sep 16
Date
Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 9:00am - Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, M110, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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,…

Sep 15 -
Sep 16
Date
Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 9:00am - Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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.