Useful Information for Application

• Reliable contact information. Reliable e-mail addresses of the applicant and the reference are the most important. A professional e-mail address is usually preferred. If the email server of your institution always screens out a machine generated mass mail with an active hyperlink, you can use your personal email.

• Membership of Econometric Society. Because the summer school is an official program of Econometric Society, you must be a member at the time of the application. This rule is enforced strictly without an exception. To join the Society, check the home page of the Econometric Society.

Paper.

• • If you do not have or do not want to present a paper, you can 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.

    • You will be asked to provide the URL link to the paper, instead of uploading a pdf file. If you have your own home page, just provide the URL link to the paper. If not, most cloud service such as Dropbox or Google Drive allows us to share a file on the web by assigning a stable address to a file.

    • Make it sure that the paper is set public on the web. If the paper is in a pdf file, the 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 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 for the paper.

• 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, please send an e-mail to the organizer, In-Koo Cho, with the subject line "esSummer: application" along with the description of the problem.

Important tip.

• • When you click "submit," the application site immediately sends out two emails: the confirmation email to the applicant and the request for the recommendation letter to the reference. The request letter contains an active hyperlink to let your reference upload the letter directly to the application database. A machine generated message with an active hyperlink is often viewed as a SPAM, and filtered out without any notice.   If you are lucky, you may find the message in your Junk Mail folder. We have experienced that around 10 percent of messages going out of the application site has failed to reach the intended receiver.

  • Be sure to check with your reference to see whether he/she has received the request for the letter from us.  If you find out that your reference has not received the request for the letter from us, please send an e-mail to the organizer, In-Koo Cho, with the subject line "esSummer: application" along with the description of the problem.