SITE 2025
Stanford Economics is proud to host its annual Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) conference from June 30 to September 12, 2025, 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.
In-person sessions only.
Program Overview
- Session 1: Asset Pricing: Models, Solution Methods, and Applications (June 30-July 2, 2025)
- Session 3: The Economics of Transparency (July 24-July 25, 2025)
- Session 4: Causes and Consequences of Misallocation: Theory and Empirics (July 24-July 25, 2025)
- Session 5: Climate Finance and Banking (July 28-July 29, 2025)
- Session 6: Missing Markets (July 30-July 31, 2025)
- Session 7: Empirical Market Design (August 6-August 7, 2025)
- Session 8: Market Failures and Public Policy (August 7-August 8, 2025)
- Session 9: Dynamic Games, Contracts, and Markets (August 11-August 13, 2025)
- Session 10: Political Economic Theory (August 14-August 15, 2025)
- Session 11: Gender (August 14-August 15, 2025)
- Session 12: Psychology and Economics (August 18-August 19, 2025)
- Session 13: Experimental Economics (August 20-August 21, 2025)
- Session 14: Financial Regulation (August 25-August 27, 2025)
- Session 15: China in the Global Economy (August 27-August 29, 2025)
- Session 16: The Micro and Macro of Labor Markets (August 28-August 29, 2025)
- Session 17: The Macroeconomics of Uncertainty and Volatility (September 3-September 5, 2025)
- Session 18: Inequality Through the Lens of Individual and Labor Market Dynamics (September 4-September 5, 2025)
- Session 19: Macroeconomics in the Sequence Space (September 8-September 10, 2025)
- Session 20: Fiscal Sustainability (September 11-September 12, 2025)
Past Sessions
This session invites innovative research in asset pricing, with a focus on macrofinance, computational techniques, machine learning applications, and the growing area of climate-related finance.…
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…
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 a wide range of fields including…
The efficient allocation of resources across firms and sectors is crucial for aggregate productivity and economic growth.
This is a segment exploring the latest papers in climate finance and banking.
In low-income countries, many markets, including credit, insurance, land and information, are frictional or missing altogether.
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…
Market failures are present in many markets, and governments throughout the world design interventions to address them.
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…
This session will bring together researchers from political science and economics who apply economic theory to the study of politics.
This workshop will be dedicated to research that studies how gender influences economic outcomes and decision making.
This session will bring together researchers working on issues at the intersection of psychology and economics.
This workshop is dedicated to advances in experimental economics combining laboratory and field-experimental methodologies with theoretical and psychological insights on decision-making, strategic…
This session discusses the latest advances in theoretical and empirical issues related to financial regulation, defined broadly.
This session invites scholars and policymakers to explore the multifaceted dimensions of China's evolving economy and its global interconnections.
The idea of this session is to bring together labor economists and macroeconomists with interests in labor markets with two goals.
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 ongoing domestic and wider…
This sessions aims to bring together scholars, both young and established, in as diverse fields as labor economics, public economics, industrial organization, and macroeconomics, who are…
The past five years have seen an explosion of work in macroeconomics using the “sequence-space” approach to solving and analyzing models.
Several countries have now record high levels of public debt that are comparable to the ones inherited from WWII.
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.