Presidential Lectures

I wanted to put together a list of AEA (and other Economics groups) Presidential speeches for my own perusal. I thought I’d share it here in case it’s useful for others.

(Cites as of 11/23/23)

AEA Presidential Speeches

• Allyn A. Young (1926): Economics and War - GS Cites: 19
• Robert Solow (1980): On Theories of Unemployment - GS Cites: 707
• Peter A. Diamond (2004): Social Security - GS Cites: 278
• Martin Feldstein (2005): Rethinking Social Insurance - GS Cites: 414
• Daniel McFadden (2006): Free Markets and Fettered Consumers - GS Cites: 214
• George A. Akerlof (2007): The Missing Motivation in Macroeconomics - GS Cites: 835
• Thomas J. Sargent (2008): Evolution and Intelligent Design - GS Cites: 189
• Avinash K. Dixit (2009): Governance Institutions and Economic Activity - GS Cites: 859
• Angus Deaton (2010): Price Indexes, Inequality, and the Measurement of World Poverty - GS Cites: 535
• Robert E. Hall (2011): The Long Slump - GS Cites: 528
• Orley Ashenfelter (2012): Comparing Real Wage Rates - GS Cites: 65
• Christopher A. Sims (2013): Paper Money - GS Cites: 226
• Claudia Goldin (2014): A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter - GS Cites: 2723
• William D. Nordhaus (2015): Climate Clubs: Overcoming Free-riding in International Climate Policy - GS Cites: 1314
• Richard Thaler (2016): Behavioral Economics: Past, Present, and Future - GS Cites: 995
• Robert Shiller (2017): Narrative Economics - GS Cites: 1077
• Alvin E. Roth (2018): Marketplaces, Markets, and Market Design - GS Cites: 167
• Olivier Blanchard (2019): Public Debt and Low Interest Rates - GS Cites: 1112
• Ben Bernanke (2020): The New Tools of Monetary Policy - GS Cites: 459
• Janet L. Yellen (2021): (couldn’t find this, please let me know if you know!)
• David Card (2022): “Who Set Your Wage?” - GS Cites: 93
• Christina Romer (2023): “Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years” - GS Cites: 5

AFA Presidential Lectures

Malcolm Wardlaw has them all listed here!

A few selected choices:

• John Campbell (2006): Household Finance - GS Cites: 3806
• John Cochrane (2011): Discount Rates - GS Cites: 2389
• Luigi Zingales (2015): Does Finance Benefit Society? - GS Cites: 582

Econometrics Society Special Lectures

Fischer-Schulz Lectures

The Fisher-Schultz Lecture is an annual lecture given by a non-European member at the European meeting or, in World Congress years, at the World Congress. The lecturer is chosen by the meeting program chairs.

A few selected choices:

• Goldberger (1972), Structural Equation Methods in the Social Sciences
• Griliches (1974), Errors in Variables and Other Unobservables
• Zellner (1985), Bayesian Econometrics
• Card (2001), Estimating the Return to Schooling: Progress on Some Persistent Econometric Problems
• Heckman and Vytlacil (2005), Structural Equations, Treatment Effects, and Econometric Policy Evaluation
• Manski (2004), Measuring Expectations
• Horowitz (2011), Applied Nonparametric Instrumental Variables Estimation