Applications
Application Window
NOTE: Only electronic submissions will be accepted between March 1 - June 15, 2024.
The application site can be found here.
Application Checklist
Reliable contact information.
E-mail is the primary mode of communication. Reliable e-mail addresses of the applicant and the reference are the most important.
(See the last bullet point, "After filing an application," to understand why we emphasize reliability.)
Membership in the Econometric Society.
Because the summer school is an official program of the Econometric Society, you must be a member at the time of the application. To join the Society, check the home page of the Econometric Society.
Use the same contact information and the identical spelling of your name as the membership information of the Econometric Society when you apply for the summer school, if possible. The Econometric Society checks the membership status of all applicants. A minor discrepancy in personal information might trigger the membership checking program to mark you as a "non-member."
Paper.
If you do not have or do not want to present a paper, skip this part by clicking "no." Slightly less than one-quarter of applicants for the summer school did not have, or chose not to present, a paper.
If you have a presentable paper, you need some preparation.
Decide which paper you want to present and prepare the PDF file of the paper.
You will be asked to provide the URL link to the paper instead of uploading a PDF file. Most cloud service such as Dropbox, One Drive or Google Drive allows us to share a file on the web by assigning a stable address to a file.
The PDF file should be free of password protection so that we can download the paper without prompting you for permission. Otherwise, your paper might not be evaluated in a timely manner.
After you provide us with a stable link for the paper, you can continue to work on your paper, revising the file from your end, as long as you keep the same URL address.
You are expected to present the (updated version of the) same paper you submitted for our review. In the past, some students requested to present a new paper which we did not have a chance to look into. Such a request is usually denied.
Letter of recommendation.
You need someone who can write a letter of recommendation for you. You will be asked to fill out the email address of your reference.
Submit the application.
After you click "submit," you cannot change your application. If you realize that you have made serious mistakes, do not upload multiple applications in a panic. Please send an e-mail to the organizer, In-Koo Cho, with the subject line "esSummer: application" along with a brief description of the problem.
After filing an application (Very important).
When you click "submit," the application site immediately sends out two emails: (1) the confirmation email to the applicant and (2) the request for the recommendation letter to the reference. The request letter contains an active hyperlink to help your reference securely upload the letter directly to the application database.
A mail server often tags as a SPAM a machine-generated message with an active hyperlink. You may find the message in your Junk or SPAM Mail folder. Even worse, the message may disappear into cyberspace without any trace. We have experienced that around 15 percent of messages going out of the application site have failed to reach the intended receiver directly. As the system administrators tighten the security, the trend is expected to continue.
Be sure to check with your reference whether he/she has received the request for the letter from us. If you do not receive a confirmation message from the application site, or if your reference has not received the request for the letter within 24 hours since your submission of the application, please send an e-mail to the organizer, In-Koo Cho, with the subject line "esSummer: application" along with a brief description of the problem.