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SITE 2026

Program Overview

Past Sessions

Jul 20 -
Jul 21
Date
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Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

This year will focus on the econometric methodology side of the topic of “Empirical Implementation of Models of Strategic Interaction and Dynamic Behavior.” Papers dealing with new developments in…

Jul 22 -
Jul 24
Date
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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.

Jul 27 -
Jul 28
Date
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Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Z301, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305

This session will bring together researchers who are applying frontier AI and machine learning methods to improve measurement, policy analysis, and modeling in macroeconomics and finance.

Jul 30 -
Jul 31
Date
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Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

The conference seeks to bring together scholars, and in particular, encourage interactions between young scholars and mentors, that study the crucial role that social …

Aug 4 -
Aug 5
Date
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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.

Aug 6 -
Aug 7
Date
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Location:
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305

This workshop will be dedicated to advances in experimental economics combining laboratory and field-experimental methodologies with theoretical and psychological insights on decision-making,…

Aug 10 -
Aug 11
Date
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Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

The session aims to bring together economists across multiple fields working on the determinants and consequences of gender inequality.

Aug 10 -
Aug 11
Date
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Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, CM302, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305

This session will bring together researchers studying how tax policies and government spending programs shape economic outcomes.

Aug 17 -
Aug 19
Date
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Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

This session brings together scholars and policymakers to discuss the evolving structure of China’s economy and its interactions with the global system today.

Aug 17 -
Aug 19
Date
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Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, C102, 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 macroeconomics, finance, organizational…

Aug 20 -
Aug 21
Date
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Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, M109, 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 24 -
Aug 25
Date
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Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Bank deposits are widely viewed as a stable and valuable funding source, yet recent events—most notably the 2022–23 tightening cycle and the regional banking crisis—have renewed questions about…

Aug 26 -
Aug 27
Date
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Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Market failures are widespread across markets, and governments throughout the world design interventions to address them.

Aug 27 -
Aug 28
Date
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Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, M104, 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…

Aug 31 -
Sep 1
Date
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Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

The workshop will feature a wide range of methodological approaches, including empirical analysis using administrative and experimental data, structural modeling, and theoretical frameworks, to…

Aug 31 -
Sep 1
Date
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Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, P107, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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

Sep 2 -
Sep 4
Date
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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 in light of the current events such as…

Sep 3 -
Sep 4
Date
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Location:
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305

This session will bring together researchers working on issues at the intersection of psychology and economics.

Sep 8 -
Sep 9
Date
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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.

Sep 10 -
Sep 11
Date
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Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

In the past few years, there has been a burgeoning interest in the use of general equilibrium models disciplined by micro data to carefully analyze important labor market phenomena and policies,…

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.