Young Economists Symposium

WHAT IS YES?

The Young Economists Symposium (YES) is an annual student-run conference for Economics PhD students. Known in the past as EconCon, it is sponsored by a group of five East Coast schools – Columbia, NYU, UPenn, Princeton and Yale.  There will be two days of academic talks and discussions as well as several social events. The purpose of the conference is to give students an opportunity to present their work to and receive feedback from a diverse and new audience of students from other schools.

This year’s conference will take place on August 9th and 10th at Columbia University. We hope the conference will be particularly appealing to those looking to go on the job market next year, but we welcome submissions from students at all stages of research who would benefit from presenting their work. Past presenters have gone on to tenure-track economics jobs at Harvard, Chicago, Yale, NYU, Michigan, Duke, Maryland, and many others. Last year we received about 130 submissions, and the best 48 papers were selected for presentation by a panel of PhD students.

Here are links to past conferences: NYU (2018), Yale (2017), and Princeton (2016).

WHAT IS THE COST?

Submission, registration, and attendance are free for presenters and non-presenting graduate students. Everyone will be provided breakfast and refreshments throughout the day. Presenters are invited to a dinner on Friday, August 9th.

ACCOMMODATIONS

We are unable to provide financial support for accommodation or travel expenses. Attendees are encouraged to apply for funding from their own departments.

However, we may be able to arrange some accommodation with local student hosts.If you would like to be hosted by a student, you will have the opportunity to indicate your preferences on the registration form that will be posted closer to the conference date. Please be advised that accommodations with student hosts are limited.

WHO CAN ATTEND?

We welcome and encourage submissions from economics PhD candidates at all schools and in all fields. Attendees who are not presenting are also welcome. To register for the conference, please fill out the Registration Form that will become available on the website in early to mid-June.

WHAT IS THE PRESENTATION FORMAT?

Each presenter will have 30 minutes, followed by the discussant for 10 minutes, and 5 minutes for Q&A. At each time slot there will be three parallel sessions, divided by sub-field.

SOCIAL EVENTS

In addition to the coffee breaks and lunches, we cordially invite all participants who present to dinner in Morningside Heights on the night of Friday, August 9th. There will also be an informal social event for all attendees on Saturday, August 10th.

REGISTRATION and SUBMISSIONS

For information on submitting to and/or registering for the conference, please go to our “Submissions” tab.

QUESTIONS?

Please email us at YES2019Columbia@gmail.com.