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52nd Annual Meetings

La Romana, Dominican Republic

Submissions open September 29, 2025

Early Deadline Nov. 1, 2025

Organized Session Deadline and Regular Submission Deadline Dec. 1, 2025

The Eastern Economic Association is a not-for-profit corporation whose object is to promote educational and scholarly exchange on economic affairs. Towards that end, the Association encourages the freedom of research and discussion. In pursuit of these goals it publishes the Eastern Economic Journal and holds an annual conference and meeting of members.

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Executive Committee

  • President: Joyce Jacobsen, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  • President-Elect: John Friedman, Brown University
  • Vice-President: Eric Masken*, Harvard University
  • Past-President: Glenn Hubbard, Columbia University
  • Executive Director: Alexandre Olbrecht, Ramapo College of New Jersey
  • Treasurer: Natalia Smirnova, University of Connecticut
  • Eastern Economic Journal Co-Editors:
    • Brad Humphreys, West Virginia University
    • Jane Ruseski, West Virginia University

Directors

  • Alexander Cardazzi, Old Dominion University
  • Jimena Gonzalez, Manhattan College
  • Sheyi Oladipo, State University of New York at Old Westbury
  • Adam Biener, Lafayette College
  • Roberto Veneziani, Queen Mary University in London

Ex oficio to the board of Directors

Donn Johnson, Assistant Treasurer, Quinnipiac University

Mary Lesser, Executive Director Emeritus, Lenoir-Rhyne University and Emeritus, Iona College

Alexandre Olbrecht, Executive Director Emeritus (2015-2017; will reinstate when term as Executive Director ends), Ramapo College of New Jersey

Past Presidents
  • 1974 Barbara R. Bergmann
  • 1975 Lawrence R. Klein *
  • 1976 Harry G. Johnson
  • 1977 James Tobin *
  • 1978 William J. Baumol
  • 1979 Joseph Pechman
  • 1980 T.S. Saini
  • 1981 Peter S. Elek
  • 1982 Ronald G. Bodkin
  • 1983 Otto Eckstein
  • 1984 William N. Leonard
  • 1985 Robert M. Solow*
  • 1986 E. Ray Canterbery
  • 1987 Dudley Dillard
  • 1988 H. Peter Gray
  • 1989 Wallace Oates
  • 1990 Allen Sinai
  • 1991 Andrew Brimmer
  • 1992 Dale Jorgenson
  • 1993 Mancur Olson
  • 1994 David Colander
  • 1995 Thomas Schelling *
  • 1996 John Q. Adams
  • 1997 Jagdish Bhagwati
  • 1998 Elizabeth E. Bailey
  • 1999 Robert H. Frank
  • 2000 Peter B. Kenen
  • 2001 Peter Temin
  • 2002 Edward N. Wolff
  • 2003 Deirdre N. McCloskey
  • 2004 Frederic S. Mishkin
  • 2005 Alan S. Blinder
  • 2006 Robert J.Shiller*
  • 2007 Michael Grossman
  • 2008 Joseph E. Stiglitz *
  • 2009 N. Gregory Mankiw
  • 2010 Paul Krugman *
  • 2011 Duncan Foley
  • 2012 Glenn Loury
  • 2013 James Poterba
  • 2014 Solomon Polachek
  • 2015 Janet Currie
  • 2016 Jeff Sachs
  • 2017 Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
  • 2018 Edward Glaeser
  • 2019 Joseph Altonji
  • 2020 Peter Diamond*
  • 2021 Brad Humphreys
  • 2022 Judith Chevalier
  • 2023 Jonathan Gruber
  • 2024 Glenn Hubbard
*Nobel Prize Recipient

Eastern Economic Association Headquarters

Anisfield School of Business Ramapo College of New Jersey Executive Director: Alex Olbrecht 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ 07430 (201) 684-7290 / eea@ramapo.edu