SITE 2024
Stanford Economics is proud to host its annual Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) conference from July 1 to September 11, 2024, 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.
To ensure a productive and engaging experience for all participants, presenters are encouraged and expected to attend and participate in the entirety of their respective sessions.
Program Overview
- Session 1: Gender (July 1-July 2, 2024)
- Session 3: Trade and Finance (July 25-July 26, 2024)
- Session 4: Fiscal Sustainability (August 1-August 2, 2024)
- Session 5: Dynamic Games, Contracts, and Markets (August 5-August 7, 2024)
- Session 6: The Micro and Macro of Labor Markets (August 6-August 7, 2024)
- Session 8: Market Design (August 8-August 9, 2024)
- Session 7: Political Economic Theory (August 8-August 9, 2024)
- Session 9: Market Failures and Public Policy (August 14-August 15, 2024)
- Session 10: Empirical Market Design (August 15-August 16, 2024)
- Session 11: Climate Finance and Banking (August 19-August 20, 2024)
- Session 12: Frontiers of Macroeconomic Research (August 21-August 23, 2024)
- Session 13: Experimental Economics (August 22-August 23, 2024)
- Session 14: Psychology and Economics (August 26-August 27, 2024)
- Session 15: The Labor Market Experience of Vulnerable Populations of Workers (August 26-August 26, 2024)
- Session 16: Housing and Urban Economics (August 28-August 30, 2024)
- Session 17: The Macroeconomics of Uncertainty and Volatility (September 4-September 6, 2024)
- Session 18: New Research in Asset Pricing (September 4-September 6, 2024)
- Session 19: The Economics of Transparency (September 5-September 6, 2024)
- Session 20: Financial Regulation (September 9-September 11, 2024)
Past Sessions
This workshop will be dedicated to understanding how gender influences economic outcomes and decision-making.
Different from the past twenty-five SITE sessions on “Empirical Implementation of Theoretical Models of Strategic Interaction and Dynamic Behavior,” this year will focus on the econometric…
Engaging in international trade requires a large amount of capital and represents substantial risks.
Several countries have now record high levels of public debt that are comparable to the ones inherited from WWII.
The idea of this session is to bring together microeconomic theorists working on dynamic games and contracts with more applied theorists working in macro, finance, organizational economics, and…
The idea of this session is to bring together labor economists and macroeconomists with interests in labor markets with two goals.
This session seeks to bring together researchers in economics, computer science, and operations research working on topics related to market design.
This session will bring together researchers from political science and economics who apply economic theory to the study of politics.
Market failures are present in many markets, and governments throughout the world design interventions to address them.
Empirical Market Design is an emerging research field, blending the theoretical underpinnings of market design with novel empirical approaches that are sometimes related to those used applied…
This is a segment exploring the latest papers in climate finance and banking.
The goal of the session is to bring together researchers working in macroeconomics, broadly defined.
This workshop will be dedicated to advances in experimental economics combining laboratory and field-experimental methodologies with theoretical and psychological insights on decision-making,…
This session will bring together researchers working on issues at the intersection of psychology and economics.
This session aims to provide a forum for scholars interested in analyzing the employment experiences of vulnerable workers.
There has been a recent surge of work in housing and urban economics, with people often scattered across otherwise disjoint fields such as public finance, labor, trade, development and macro, and…
The session will cover recent work on the causes and effects of changes in volatility and uncertainty in the aggregate economy, which is incredibly topical given the COVID, Monetary and Ukraine…
This session invites pioneering research in asset pricing, with a special focus on macrofinance, computational techniques, machine learning applications, and the emerging field of sustainable…
The idea of this SITE session is to bring together theorists and empiricists working on topics of the economics of information transparency and disclosure across accounting, economics, finance,…
This session discusses the latest advances in theoretical and empirical issues related to financial regulation, defined broadly.
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.