November
27, 2009
Dear
SED
Friends:
Our 2009 summer meeting in Istanbul was a huge success. Our thanks go out
to the program chairs, Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Martin Schneider, as
well as the local organizers, Nezih Guner, Refet Gürkaynak, Selo
Imrohoroglu, Gökçe Kolasin and Kamil Yilmaz for all of their hard work in
leading to this success. As many of you know, the Istanbul conference
coincided with the end of David Levine's three year term as President of
the SED. We are all very thankful for his service to the society, and he
has left the society in an even stronger position than it was when he began
his term. He oversaw three highly successful meetings (in Prague, Cambridge
MA, and Istanbul), initiated a considerable expansion in the size of the
summer conference, and took steps to have the SED become an official non-profit organization.
The 2010 meeting of the SED will be held in Montreal, Canada from July 12-14. Mark Aguiar and Michèle Tertilt have agreed to serve as program chairs,
and have already arranged for an outstanding slate of plenary speakers:
Susan Athey from Harvard University, Bob Hall from Stanford
University, and Ellen McGrattan from the Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis. The local coordinators for the conference are Rui Castro and
Francisco Ruge-Murcia, and I know they are working hard to ensure another
very successful meeting.
The 2011 meetings will be held in Gent, Belgium. The local coordinators are
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Gert Peersman and Robert Kollmann. They made a presentation to the Council
during the Istanbul meetings and it looks like we will have a great time in
Gent in 2011. While the tradition has been to have the location of the
conference to alternate between Europe and North America, the more likely
pattern in the future is to have a three year cycle with two meetings in
Europe and one in North America. At this point it looks like the 2012
conference will be held in Cyprus. Alex Michaelides and Chris Pissarides
have put together a proposal that looks very impressive.
I also want to take this opportunity to thank some additional individuals
for their service to the Society. First I would like to thank Narayana Kocherlakota for
his years of service as Managing Editor of RED. He devoted a great deal of
energy to RED and the journal has done very well under his leadership. I
would also like to thank Gianluca Violante, who has taken over from
Narayana as the Managing Editor of RED. I am confident that RED will
continue its upward trajectory under his leadership. Finally, I would like
to thank Ellen McGrattan and Christian Zimmermann, for their years of hard
work as Treasurer and Secretary of the Society, respectively.
See you all in Montreal!
Best Regards.
Richard Rogerson, President
Society for Economic Dynamics
