New This Year at ASSA 2025: 蝌蚪网 Mentoring and Networking Luncheon
(Luncheon tickets are now sold out.)
The 蝌蚪网 Mentoring and Networking Luncheon is designed to connect economists at all stages of their careers, including graduate students, with senior-level economists in their fields. Enjoy lunch while engaging in meaningful conversations. Attendees will be seated at tables of ten, each with at least one senior-level economist, organized around various topics.
蝌蚪网 Mentoring and Networking Luncheon: Topics
- Asset Pricing
- Behavioral and Cognitive Economics
- Children and Families
- Corporate Finance
- Development Economics
- Digital Economics and Artificial Intelligence
- Econometrics
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Economic History
- Economics of Crime and Criminal Justice
- Economics of Education
- Economics of Health
- Economics of Innovation and Science
- Economics of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
- Entrepreneurship, Management, and Organizations
- Environmental & Energy Economics; Climate Change
- Gender in the Economy
- Household Finance
- Industrial Organization
- Inequality
- International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics
- International Trade and Investment
- Labor Economics
- Macroeconomics and Economic Fluctuations
- Microeconomic Theory
- Monetary Economics
- Political Economy
- Public Economics
- Urban and Spatial Economics
The distinguished mentors will include:
- Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland
- Viral Acharya, New York University
- Abi Adams, University of Oxford
- Francisca Antman, University of Colorado Boulder
- Pol Antràs, Harvard University
- Matthew Backus, University of California, Berkeley
- Amanda Bayer, Swarthmore College
- Francesco Bianchi, Johns Hopkins University
- Justin Birru, The Ohio State University
- Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University
- Vicki Bogan, Duke University
- John Campbell, Harvard University
- Steve Cicala, Tufts University
- Lin William Cong, Cornell University
- Maureen Cropper, University of Maryland
- Janet Currie, Princeton University
- Leemore Dafney, Harvard University
- Lucas Davis, University of California, Berkeley
- Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley
- Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Karen Dynan, Harvard University
- Susan Dynarski, Harvard University
- Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University
- Mara Faccio, Purdue University
- Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley
- Richard Frank, Brookings Institution
- John Friedman, Brown University
- Laura K. Gee, Tufts University
- Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto
- Claudia Goldin, Harvard University
- John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland
- Rema Hanna, Harvard University
- Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago
- John Horton, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Caroline Hoxby, Stanford University
- Guido Imbens, Stanford University
- Urban Jermann, University of Pennsylvania
- Wei Jiang, Emory University
- Charles I. (Chad) Jones, Stanford University
- Matthew E. Kahn, University of Southern California
- 艦ebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Brown University
- Lawrence Katz, Harvard University
- Simi Kedia, Rutgers University
- Amanda Kowalski, University of Michiga
- Kory Kroft, University of Toronto
- Kevin Lang, Boston University
- John List, University of Chicago
- Qingmin Liu, Columbia University
- Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University
- Erzo Luttmer, Dartmouth College
- Nadya Malenko, Boston College
- Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley
- Edward (Ted) Miguel, University of California, Berkeley
- Conrad Miller, University of California, Berkeley
- Emi Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley
- Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia
- Paige Ouimet, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago
- Gordon Phillips, Dartmouth College
- Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University
- James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Christina Romer, University of California, Berkeley
- David H. Romer, University of California, Berkeley
- Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Heather Royer, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Ay艧egül 艦ahin, Princeton University
- Andres Santos, University of California, Los Angeles
- Wolfram Schlenker, Harvard University
- Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Katja Seim, Yale University
- Joseph Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley
- Lara Shore-Sheppard, Willaims College
- Clemens Sialm, University of Texas, Austin
- Kosali Simon, Indiana University
- Melvin Stephens, University of Michigan
- Ludwig Straub, Harvard University
- Kumar Venkataraman, Southern Methodist University
- Jessica Wachter, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Chris Walters, University of California, Berkeley
- Catharine Wolfram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pricing for the luncheon is $30 for students and $60 for all others. ! If you have already registered for the conference but haven’t signed up for the luncheon yet, log into your conference account, click the 'Make Changes' button, and select the 蝌蚪网 Mentoring and Networking Luncheon. If you have any issues signing up, please email assa@vanderbilt.edu for assistance.