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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.

All sessions will only be in person.

Program Overview

Upcoming Sessions

Jun 30 -
Jul 2
Date
Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 8:00am - Wed, Jul 2, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Herbert Hoover Memorial Building, 434 Galvez Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

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.…

Jul 17 -
Jul 18
Date
Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 8:00am - Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Jul 24 -
Jul 25
Date
Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 8:00am - Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Jul 24 -
Jul 25
Date
Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 8:00am - Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305

The efficient allocation of resources across firms and sectors is crucial for aggregate productivity and economic growth.

Jul 28 -
Jul 29
Date
Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 8:00am - Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

This is a segment exploring the latest papers in climate finance and banking.

Jul 30 -
Jul 31
Date
Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 8:00am - Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

In low-income countries, many markets, including credit, insurance, land and information, are frictional or missing altogether.

Aug 5 -
Aug 6
Date
Tue, Aug 5, 2025, 8:00am - Wed, Aug 6, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Aug 7 -
Aug 8
Date
Thu, Aug 7, 2025, 8:00am - Fri, Aug 8, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Market failures are present in many markets, and governments throughout the world design interventions to address them.

Aug 11 -
Aug 13
Date
Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 8:00am - Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Aug 14 -
Aug 15
Date
Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 8:00am - Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, 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.

Aug 14 -
Aug 15
Date
Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 8:05am - Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 5:05pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

This workshop will be dedicated to research that studies how gender influences economic outcomes and decision making.

Aug 18 -
Aug 19
Date
Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 8:00am - Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Aug 20 -
Aug 21
Date
Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 8:00am - Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305

We would like to host a workshop in Experimental Economics.

Aug 25 -
Aug 27
Date
Mon, Aug 25, 2025, 8:00am - Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 5:00pm 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.

Aug 27 -
Aug 29
Date
Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 8:00am - Fri, Aug 29, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305

This session invites scholars and policymakers to explore the multifaceted dimensions of China's evolving economy and its global interconnections.

Aug 28 -
Aug 29
Date
Thu, Aug 28, 2025, 8:00am - Fri, Aug 29, 2025, 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.

Sep 3 -
Sep 5
Date
Wed, Sep 3, 2025, 8:00am - Fri, Sep 5, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Sep 4 -
Sep 5
Date
Thu, Sep 4, 2025, 8:00am - Fri, Sep 5, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
TBD

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…

Sep 8 -
Sep 10
Date
Mon, Sep 8, 2025, 8:00am - Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

The past five years have seen an explosion of work in macroeconomics using the “sequence-space” approach to solving and analyzing models.

Sep 11 -
Sep 12
Date
Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 8:00am - Fri, Sep 12, 2025, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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.