Conferences and Workshops | Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

Apr 17	April 2026
Sep 11	September 2026

20th Anniversary Annual Conference on General Equilibrium and its Applications

June 1	2026 Conference on Political Economy
June 1-2	2026 Conference on Labor & Public Economics
June 1-2	2026 Conference on Models & Measurement
June 2-3	2026 Conference on Economic Theory
June 3-4	2026 Conference on International Trade
June 4-5	2026 Conference on Econometrics
June 4-5	2026 Conference on Macroeconomics

Cowles Summer Conferences

Conferences

Mar 6-7

Graduate Women in Economic Theory Conference

Trade Days

Feb 27

Trade Day February 2026

Cowles Lunch Talks

Mar 4

Chad Jones, Stanford GSB

Workshops & Lectures

Mar 3

Koopmans Lecture: Chad Jones, Stanford GSB

2025

Conferences

Apr 25-26	19th Annual Conference on General Equilibrium and its Applications
May 2-3	Women in Economic Theory Conference
Oct 16	6th Women in International Economics Conference
Oct 24	Firms, Trade, and Development Conference 2025
Oct 31	Junior Spatial Economics Conference
Nov 14	Conference on Spatial Dynamics

Summer Conferences

June 2-3	2025 Conference on Economic Theory
June 2-3	2025 Conference on Labor & Public Economics
June 3-4	2025 Conference on Macroeconomics
June 4-5	2025 Conference on Models & Measurement
June 5-6	2025 Conference on International Trade
Oct 24	2025 Conference on Econometrics

Trade Days

Mar 28	Trade Day March 2025
May 9	Trade Day May 2025
Sep 19	Trade Day September 2025
Nov 7	Trade Day November 2025

Cowles Lunch Talks

Mar 26	Derek Neal, University of Chicago
Apr 9	Leah Boustan, Princeton University
Apr 30	Benjamin Enke, Harvard University
Sep 10	Dirk Bergemann, Yale University
Oct 22	Eduardo Dávila, Yale University
Nov 19	Lars Hansen, University of Chicago
Dec 3	Abi Adams, Northwestern University

Workshops & Lectures

Feb 21

Columbia-NYU-Yale Housing Day

Co-sponsored by the Tobin Center for Economic Policy

Apr 11

Best Practices for Reproducible Science:
Lessons from 2,400 replication packages with Prof. Lars Vilhuber

Co-sponsored by the Data-Intensive Social Science Center

2024

Conferences

Apr 19	Rethinking Optimal Deposit Insurance
Apr 26-27	18th Annual Conference on General Equilibrium and its Applications

Summer Conferences

June 3	2024 Conference on International Trade
June 3-4	2024 Conference on Economic Theory
June 3-4	2024 Conference on Labor & Public Economics
June 5-6	2024 Conference on Econometrics
June 5-6	2024 Conference on Models & Measurement
June 6-7	2024 Conference on Macroeconomics

Trade Days

Mar 29	Trade Day March 2024
Sep 6	Trade Day September 2024
Nov 1	Trade Day November 2024

Cowles Lunch Talks

Mar 6	Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University
Sep 4	Marina Halac, Yale University
Sep 18	Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University
Oct 9	Steven Tadelis, UC Berkeley
Nov 6	Amit Khandelwal, Yale University

Workshops & Lectures

Mar 5	Koopmans Lecture: Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University
May 31	Supply Chain Workshop

2023

Conferences

Apr 28-29

17th Annual Conference on General Equilibrium and its Applications

Summer Conferences

June 5-6	2023 Conference on Economic Theory
June 5-6	2023 Conference on Labor & Public Economics
June 7-8	2023 Conference on Econometrics
June 7-8	2023 Conference on Models & Measurement
June 8-9	2023 Conference on Macroeconomics
June 9	2023 Conference on International Trade

Trade Days

Mar 31	Trade Day March 2023
Apr 21	Trade Day April 2023
Sep 1	Trade Day September 2023
Dec 8	Trade Day December 2023

Cowles Lunch Talks

Apr 5	Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University
Apr 12	Myrto Kalouptsidi, Harvard University
Apr 26	Christopher Neilson, Yale University
Sep 6	Zvi Eckstein, Reichman University
Sep 20	Costis Daskalakis, MIT
Oct 11	Richard Blundell, University College London

2022

Conferences

Sep 30 - Oct 2

16th Annual Conference on General Equilibrium and its Applications
in Celebration of John Geanakoplos' 65th Birthday

Summer Conferences

June 6	2022 Conference on Labor and Public Economics
June 6-7	2022 Conference on Economic Theory
June 7-8	2022 Conference on Models and Measurement
June 8-9	2022 Summer Conference: International Trade
June 9-10	2022 Conference on Macroeconomics
June 10	2022 Conference on Econometrics

Trade Days

Apr 22	Trade Day April 2022
May 6	Trade Day May 2022

Cowles Lunch Talks

Mar 2

Charles Manski, Northwestern University

Workshops & Lectures

Mar 1

Koopmans Lecture: Charles Manski, Northwestern University

2021

Summer Conferences

June 1-2	2021 Conference on Models and Measurement
June 1-2	2021 Conference on Economic Theory
June 3	2021 Summer Conference: Economics of Cryptocurrencies
June 3-4	2021 Conference on Econometrics
June 7	2021 Conference on International Trade
June 7	2021 Conference on Labor Economics & Public Finance

Trade Days

Mar 26	Trade Day March 2021
Nov 12	Trade Day November 2021

Cowles Lunch Talks

Mar 17	Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University
Apr 14	Philipp Strack, Yale University
Apr 28	John Geanakoplos, Yale University
Sep 29	Sam Kortum, Yale University
Oct 6	Judy Chevalier, Yale University
Oct 27	George-Marios Angeletos, MIT Economics
Nov 3	Gerard Padro i Miquel, Yale University

2020

Cowles Lunch Talks

Feb 19	Paul W. Rhode, University of Michigan
Mar 4	Yang Cai, Yale University
Mar 25	Eric Maskin, Harvard University
Apr 15	Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University
Sep 30	Xiaohong Chen, Yale University
Nov 18	Larry Samuelson, Yale University