Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alberto Abadie is an econometrician and empirical microeconomist with broad disciplinary interests. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1999. Upon graduating, he joined the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was promoted to full professor in 2005. He returned to MIT in 2016, where he is a Professor of Economics.

His research areas include econometrics, causal inference, and program evaluation. His methodological research focuses on econometric methods to estimate causal effects, particularly the effects of public policies, such as labor market, education, and health policy interventions. He has served as Editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and Associate Editor of AER: Insights, Econometrica, and the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Mark Watson is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society. His research focuses on time-series econometrics, empirical macroeconomics, and macroeconomic forecasting.

Professor of Economics, ICREA-University Pompeu Fabra and EUI 

Barbara Rossi is an ICREA Professor of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a Professor of Economics at the European University Institute. She has previously been an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Duke University, after earning her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She is a Fellow and a Director of the International Association of Applied Econometrics, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a CEPR Fellow. In the past, she served as a member of the Euro-Area Business Cycle Dating Committee. Professor Rossi specializes in the fields of time series econometrics, as well as applied international finance and macroeconomics. Her current research focuses on Forecasting, Time Series Econometrics, and Macroeconometrics.

Louis Berkman Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Elie Tamer is the Louis Berkman Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Tamer's research is in Econometrics and Empirical Industrial Organization. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former Co-editor of Econometrica, Quantitative Economics, and the former managing editor of the Journal of Econometrics.