世界計量經濟學會
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世界計量經濟學會官方網站:http://www.econometricsociety.org/ 英文
世界計量經濟學會於1930年12月29日成立，實際上相當於世界經濟學會，也是全球規模最大、水平最高的經濟學會。除了每5年召開一次世界大會外，還在各個地區召開經常性的學術會議。
世界計量經濟學會的遠東會議每兩年召開一次，由遠東地區的一個學術機構主辦；參加者則是來自世界各國、各地區的經濟學家，既不限於遠東地區，也不限於計量經濟學。日本、南韓、新加坡等國家以及我國臺灣、香港地區的學術機構都曾經主辦過一次或多次遠東會議。在2004年7月於漢城舉辦的2004年會議上，清華大學申辦2006年會議獲得成功。
2006年7月10日在清華大學主樓正式開幕，會議由清華經管學院主辦，得到了國家自然科學基金委員會、中國建設銀行、中國國際金融公司等單位的支持。此次會議歷時四天，是世界計量經濟學會首次在中國大陸舉辦，也是世界著名經濟學家們在中國大陸的首次大聚會。清華經管學院經濟繫系主任白重恩教授擔任會議主席，500多位來自世界各地的經濟學家和學者參會，17位世界著名的經濟學家和計量經濟學家做演講。
開幕式上，清華大學副校長謝維和教授、世界計量經濟學會會長Richard Blundell教授、中國計量經濟學會會長汪同三教授、中國建設銀行副行長羅哲夫等分別緻辭。開幕式之後，Richard Blundell教授做了題為“收入與消費：部分保險和不平等傳遞”大會報告。
這次會議共有來自世界36個國家和地區的400餘篇論文經會議程式委員會評審錄用，在會議期間將舉辦140多場專題研討會，這些會議論文的主題涵蓋了經濟學的各個方面，既有計量經濟學、微觀經濟學和巨集觀經濟學等學科的理論性研究，又有經濟學理論在各個研究領域的應用性研究。無論是經濟學大師的演講，還是就不同的研究領域進行的分組討論，都將為蒞會學者提出新的、有價值的理論、方法和觀點提供機會。會議不僅要為全球範圍的經濟學知識和相關信息的交流和共用提供一個平臺，而且也將為刺激經濟學新思想、新觀點和新方法的產生提供一個場所。
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1. Purpose and Activities
The Econometric Society is the most prestigious learned society in the field of economics, with a world-wide membership. Its main object is to promote studies that aim at a unification of the theoretical-quantitative and empirical-quantitative approach to economic problems and that are penetrated by constructive and rigorous thinking similar to that which has come to dominate in the natural sciences. It operates as a purely scientific organization, without any political, social, financial or nationalistic allegiance or bias.
The four main activities of the Society are the publication of a journal, Econometrica; the publication of a monograph series in collaboration with the Cambridge University Press; the organization of scientific meetings in six regions of the world (including a World Congress every five years); and the conduct of elections for Fellow of the Econometric Society, an honorary designation highly valued by members of the economics profession. More details on each of these activities are provided below in separate numbered sections of this document.
The governing body of the Society is the Council, of which a subcommittee called the Executive Committee meets annually and makes decisions on all aspects of the Society's operations and governance. Fellows elect Officers, members of the Council, and new Fellows.
The Society is a self-supporting nonprofit organization and operates on behalf of its members. The Society does not receive grants or aid from any outside organization, although some regions of the Society do raise outside funds for support of their regional meetings. The Society uses its financial surplus to finance travel grants to its quinquennial World Congress and to finance extra activities on behalf of members, such as a Members' Directory.
2. Brief History
The Econometric Society was founded in 1930, at the initiative of the Yale economist Irving Fisher (the Society's first president) and the Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch, who some forty years later was the first economist (together with Jan Tinbergen) to be awarded the Nobel Prize2. The first organizational meeting of the Society was held in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 29, 1930. The first scientific meetings of the Society were held in September, 1931, at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and in December, 1931, in Washington D.C.
During the year 1931 173 persons became charter members, including all those who had attended the initial Cleveland and Lausanne meetings. Members initially had to be proposed for election by two existing members, although within another year the concept of membership became less restrictive and was opened up to anyone who wanted to join and pay membership dues, as is true today.
Fellows of the Society were initially nominated and elected by the Council, but since the 1960s have been elected by existing Fellows. Twenty nine Fellows were initially elected in 1933, and there are currently about 550 Fellows.
The journal Econometrica published its first issue in 1933, with Frisch as editor-in-chief, and with a budget that was initially subsidized by the financier Alfred Cowles. Frisch had coined the word "econometrics" only a few years earlier, in 1926. The journal started out publishing four issues of 112 pages per year and did not grow beyond 500 pages per year until the 1950s. Since the 1970s Econometrica has published six issues per year containing roughly 1,600 annual pages.
The business and editorial offices of the Society were initially part of the Cowles Commission, founded by Alfred Cowles in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the same time as the founding of the Society. Cowles served as Secretary, Treasurer, and circulation manager for many years (until 1948 as Secretary and until 1954 as Treasurer). The Cowles Commission (now the Cowles Foundation) moved to the University of Chicago in 1939 and to Yale University in 1954. Since the mid-1960s the editorial office has resided in the academic offices of the principal editor, while the business office moved from Yale to Northwestern University in 1975.
