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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.

Program Overview

Upcoming Sessions

Jul 25 -
Jul 26
Date
Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 12:00pm - Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 7:30pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Engaging in international trade requires a large amount of capital and represents substantial risks.

Aug 1 -
Aug 2
Date
Thu, Aug 1, 2024, 8:00am - Fri, Aug 2, 2024, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, E103, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Several countries have now record high levels of public debt that are comparable to the ones inherited from WWII.

Aug 5 -
Aug 7
Date
Mon, Aug 5, 2024, 8:00am - Wed, Aug 7, 2024, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, BC130, 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 6 -
Aug 7
Date
Tue, Aug 6, 2024, 8:00am - Wed, Aug 7, 2024, 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.

Aug 8 -
Aug 9
Date
Thu, Aug 8, 2024, 8:00am - Fri, Aug 9, 2024, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, BC130, 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 8 -
Aug 9
Date
Thu, Aug 8, 2024, 8:00am - Fri, Aug 9, 2024, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

This session seeks to bring together researchers in economics, computer science, and operations research working on topics related to market design.

Aug 14 -
Aug 15
Date
Wed, Aug 14, 2024, 8:00am - Thu, Aug 15, 2024, 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 15 -
Aug 16
Date
Thu, Aug 15, 2024, 8:00am - Fri, Aug 16, 2024, 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 19 -
Aug 20
Date
Mon, Aug 19, 2024, 8:00am - Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 8:00am 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.

Aug 21 -
Aug 23
Date
Wed, Aug 21, 2024, 8:00am - Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

The goal of the session is to bring together researchers working in macroeconomics, broadly defined.

Aug 22 -
Aug 23
Date
Thu, Aug 22, 2024, 8:00am - Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94035

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 26 -
Aug 27
Date
Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 8:00am - Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 9:00pm PDT
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.

Aug 26 -
Aug 26
Date
Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 8:00am - 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

This session aims to provide a forum for scholars interested in analyzing the employment experiences of vulnerable workers.

Aug 28 -
Aug 30
Date
Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 8:00am - Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Sep 4 -
Sep 6
Date
Wed, Sep 4, 2024, 8:00am - Fri, Sep 6, 2024, 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 COVID, Monetary and Ukraine…

Sep 4 -
Sep 6
Date
Wed, Sep 4, 2024, 8:00am - Fri, Sep 6, 2024, 5:00pm PDT
Location:
Herbert Hoover Memorial Building, 434 Galvez Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

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…

Sep 5 -
Sep 6
Date
Thu, Sep 5, 2024, 8:30am - Fri, Sep 6, 2024, 6:00pm PDT
Location:
Stanford Graduate School of Business, C102, 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 accounting, economics, finance,…

Sep 9 -
Sep 11
Date
Mon, Sep 9, 2024, 8:00am - Wed, Sep 11, 2024, 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.

Past Sessions

Jul 1 -
Jul 2
Date
-
Location:
Landau Economics Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

This workshop will be dedicated to understanding how gender influences economic outcomes and decision-making.

Jul 11 -
Jul 12
Date
-
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…

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.