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The 2025 World Congress of the Econometric Society (ESWC 2025) will take place in Seoul, Korea, Monday August 18 to Friday August 22, 2025. The hosts are Seoul National University, Korea University, Sogang University, Sungkyunkwan University, Yonsei University, and the Korean Economic Association.
The World Congress occurs only once every five years and is the focal point of the Society’s meetings in which researchers from all regions of the world convene simultaneously to participate in a program covering all aspects of economics, with a scientific program reflecting the very best work in the profession.
Previous congresses have been held in Rome (1965), Cambridge, UK (1970), Toronto (1975), Aix-en-Provence (1980), Cambridge, USA (1985), Barcelona (1990), Tokyo (1995), Seattle (2000), London (2005), Shanghai (2010), Montréal (2015), with the 2020 ESWC taking place virtually in cooperation with Bocconi University in Milan.
The program chairs are:
Rachel Griffith (lead chair), University of Manchester
Yuriy Gorodnichenko (co-chair), University of California, Berkeley
Michihiro Kandori (co-chair), University of Tokyo
Francesca Molinari (co-chair), Cornell University
The local organizing co-chairs are Yoon-Jae Whang and Jinwoo Kim from Seoul National University. The local organizing committee will be comprised of Korea’s most prominent economists and leading academics.
