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The Society for Economic Measurement, or SEM, is a scientific
learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and science. Membership m ...
in the field of
economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...
. It was founded on August 24, 2013 by
William A. Barnett William Arnold Barnett (born October 30, 1941) is an American economist, whose current work is in the fields of chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinear dynamics in socioeconomic contexts, econometric modeling of consumption and production, and the stud ...
in order to "promote research on economic measurement, using advanced tools from economic theory, econometrics, aggregation theory, experimental economics, mathematics, and statistics". Nobel Laureate
James Heckman James Joseph Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is a Nobel Prize-winning American economist at the University of Chicago, where he is The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Professor at the Harris School of Pu ...
will take over as the society's second president in 2019 for a three-year term in office. The goal of the SEM is to promote in economics—given the constraints of a
social science Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of so ...
—the implementation of the strict rules of measurement and data gathering standards used in the
physical sciences Physical science is a branch of natural science that studies non-living systems, in contrast to life science. It in turn has many branches, each referred to as a "physical science", together called the "physical sciences". Definition Phy ...
. Carnegie Mellon University, th
Center for Financial Stability
and the
University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. T ...
are sponsors of the society.


Activities

* The inaugural conference of the SEM was held at th
Harper Center
of the
University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...
's
Booth School of Business The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago Booth or Booth) is the graduate business school of the University of Chicago. Founded in 1898, Chicago Booth is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and is associated with 10 N ...
on August 18–20, 2014.SEM Conference
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Becker Friedman Institute The Gary Becker Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary center for research in economics. The institute was established at the University of Chicago in June 2011. It brought together the activit ...
at the
University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...
. * The 2nd SEM conference was held at the OECD in
Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
on July 22–24, 2015. * The 3rd SEM conference was held i
Thessaloniki, Greece
on July 6–8, 2016. * The 4th SEM conference was held at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
on July 26–28, 2017. * The 5th SEM conference will be held at
Xiamen University Xiamen University (; Southern Min: ''Ē-mn̂g-toā-o̍h''), colloquially known as Xia Da (; Southern Min: ''Hā-tāi''), is a national public research university in Xiamen, Fujian, China. Founded in 1921 by Tan Kah Kee, a Chinese patriotic e ...
on Xiamen Island in China in June 2108. * The 6th SEM Conference will be held at
Goethe University Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...
in Frankfurt, with cosponsorship by the
European Central Bank The European Central Bank (ECB) is the prime component of the monetary Eurosystem and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) as well as one of seven institutions of the European Union. It is one of the world's most important centr ...
, on August 16–18, 2019.


SEM Fellows

The full list of the 2013-2014 SEM Fellows is posted here
SEM 2013-2014 Fellows


Officers

A. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: 1. President: * W. A. Barnett, U. of Kansas and Center for Financial Stability, NY City 2. Vice Presidents: *
Yves Balasko Yves Balasko is a French economist working in England. He was born in Paris on 9 August 1945 to a Hungarian father and a French mother. After studying mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris he became interested in economics. He s ...
, University of York, UK * Ernst Berndt (MIT professor), MIT * Walter Erwin Diewert, U of British Columbia, Canada * Ester Faia, Goethe University, Germany * Kaye Husbands Fealing, Georgia Institute of Technology * Dennis Fixler, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce * Barbara Fraumeni, U. of Southern Maine; Central U. of Finance and Economics, Beijing *
Dale Jorgenson Dale Weldeau Jorgenson (May 7, 1933 – June 8, 2022) was the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University, teaching in the department of economics and John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served as chairman of the departmen ...
, Harvard * Ken Judd, Stanford (Hoover) * Julia Lane, New York University * Jacques Mairesse, CREST (ENSAE, Paris), UNU-MERIT (Maastricht University, Maastricht) * J. Peter Neary, Oxford U., U.K. * Paul Schreyer, Deputy Director, OECD Statistics Directorate, Paris * Apostolos Serletis, U. of Calgary, Canada *
Karl Shell Karl Shell (born May 10, 1938) is an American theoretical economist, specializing in macroeconomics and monetary economics. Shell received an A.B. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1960. He earned his Ph.D. in economics in 1965 at St ...
, Cornell * Marcel Timmer, University of Groningen, Netherlands * Sevin Yeltekin, Carnegie Mellon U. 3. Members at Large: *
James Heckman James Joseph Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is a Nobel Prize-winning American economist at the University of Chicago, where he is The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Professor at the Harris School of Pu ...
, U. of Chicago and University College, Dublin 4. Member by Appointment of the Center for Financial Stability: * Lawrence Goodman, President
Center for Financial Stability
NY City 5. Secretary-Treasurer: * Stephen Spear, Carnegie Mellon U. B. COUNCIL: Charter Council Members: * Bert Balk, Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands * Marcelle Chauvet, U. of California Riverside * Robert Feenstra, U. of California at Davis * Kevin Fox, U. of New South Wales * Steve Hanke, Johns Hopkins U. * Jonathan Haskel, Imperial College, London, U.K. * Robert Hill, U. of Graz, Austria * Charles Hulten, U. of Maryland * Robert Inklaar, U. of Groningen, Netherlands * Peter Ireland, Boston College * Fredj Jawadi, U. of Évry and France Business School, France * Koji Nomura, Keio U., Tokyo, Japan * Lee Ohanian, UCLA * Philippe de Peretti, University of Paris 1, Sorbonne, France * Prasada Rao, University of Queensland, Australia * Stephen Turnovsky, U. of Washington * Myrna Wooders, Vanderbilt University * Nicholas Yannelis, U. of Iowa


References


External links


SEM Official Web SiteSEM's Page at the Center for Financial StabilitySEM's Official Page on FacebookBecker Friedman Institute
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