The Carroll Round is an undergraduate international economics conference founded in 2001 by a group of Georgetown students. It is held annually in April and provides a forum for research and discussion among the world’s top undergraduates. To our knowledge, there is no other undergraduate economics conference of this scale and academic quality anywhere in the world.
Through a globally competitive application process, the 25-30 selected students present their original research. Topics have ranged from US monetary policy and high frequency trading to migration patterns in China and children adoption/laundering. These students hail from the world’s leading programs, including but not limited to Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, MIT, Penn, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, and LSE. To date, around 500 students have participated, making the Carroll Round the premier conference of its kind.
The conference sponsors two keynote lectures with eminent scholars and practitioners in the field of Economics. Keynote speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates to members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. A few of our past keynote speakers include:
▪ Maurice Obstfeld, IMF Chief Economist
▪ Ben Bernanke, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
▪ Thomas Schelling, 2005 Nobel Laureate
▪ Joseph Stiglitz, former World Bank Chief Economist and 2001 Nobel Laureate
▪ Robert C. Merton, 1997 Nobel Laureate
▪ John F. Nash, 1994 Nobel Laureate
The Carroll Round alumni group is an extensive and growing global network of academics and professionals. Some of our alumni pursue graduate work in Economics at prestigious programs around the world, including Oxford, MIT, Yale, UC Berkeley, and Chicago. Other alumni have gone on to work at the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve, as well as at leading multinational consulting and financial firms.
Now in its eighteenth year, the Carroll Round is supported through the generosity of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Carroll Round alumni, and private donors. We encourage fellow undergraduates of all institutions and class years to join our community of like-minded scholars in presenting their research, meeting and networking with other top students, and discussing today’s most pressing economic issues with top minds in the field. This year’s conference will be held from April 11 to April 14, 2019.
As the international/priority deadline of the 18th Carroll Round is approaching, I would like to extend a cordial invitation to all interested students at Columbia University to apply to this year’s conference. For articles submitted by the priority deadline of February 7th, 2019, we intend to release acceptances on a rolling basis ending March 21st, 2019. For applications submitted by the regular deadline of March 7th, 2019, we will release the decisions by March 28th, 2019. To apply, please fill out the Carroll Round XVIII Application Form through our website.
For more information about the Carroll Round, past speakers, and application, please visit our website or follow us on Facebook.
