Visitors Program

The Program for Economic Research brings visiting researchers and scholars in the field to Columbia both to present their recent work and ideas in seminar workshops and to serve as a resource for Columbia faculty and students. Invitations are made by Columbia faculty to distinguished guests for one week during term. Below is a list of past visitors.


Spring 2007 Visitors


Ricardo Reis (Princeton), 5-9 February

Robert Townsend (U. of Chicago), 12-16 February

Avinash Dixit (Princeton), 26 February-2 March

Costas Meghir (UCL), 5-9 March

Lanier Benkard (Stanford GSB), 5-9 March

Daron Acemoglu (MIT), 20-22 March

Jaap Abbring (Amsterdam), 4-6 April

Maurizio Mazzocco (UCLA), 9-13 April

Mark Stabile (U. of Toronto), 16-20 April

Philippe Jehiel (ENPC), 23-27 April

Herbert Dawid (U. of Bielefeld), 30 April-11 May



Fall 2006 Visitors


George-Marios Angeletos (MIT), 26-29 September

Martin Schneider (NYU), 2-6 October

Petra Todd (Penn), 9-13 October

Oliver Hart (Harvard), 16-20 October

Michael Greenstone (MIT), 23-27 October

Roland Benabou (Princeton), 30 October-3 November

Marcos Rangel (U. of Chicago), 4-8 December



Spring 2006 Visitors


Guy Laroque (Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique, INSEE), 23-27 January

Ariel Pakes (Harvard), 6-10 February

Claudia Olivetti (Boston University), 13-17 February

Joe Doyle (MIT-Sloan), 20-24 February

Justin McCrary (University of Michigan), 27 February-3 March

Jim Powell (Berkeley), 27-31 March

Guido Lorenzoni (MIT), 17-21 April

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (U Penn), 17-28 April

Yoram Weiss (Tel Aviv University), 1-5 May

Richard Blundell (University College London), 8-12 May



Fall 2005 Visitors


Giovanni Violante (NYU), 6-12 September

George-Marios Angeletos (MIT), 19-22 September

Moshe Buchinsky (UCLA), 19-23 September

Frank Schorfheide (Penn), 26-30 September

Richard Gilbert (UC Berkeley), 3-14 October

Michael Greenstone (MIT), 10-15 October

Christopher Harris (Cambridge), 17-21 October

Monika Piazzesi (U. of Chicago GSB), 24-28 October

Alan Krueger (Princeton), 31 October-4 November

Philip Reny (U. of Chicago), 9-11 November

Aleh Tsyvinski (Harvard), 11-16 November

Ebonya Washington (Yale), 14-18 November

François Salanié (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Toulouse), 21-25 November

Peter Robinson (LSE), 28 November-2 December



Spring 2005 Visitors


Kenneth Chay (UC Berkeley), 11-14 January

Philip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto), 19-21 January

Stefano DellaVigna (UC Berkeley), 24-28 January

Ulrike Malmendier (Stanford), 24-28 January

Emmanuel Saez (UC Berkeley), 21-25 March

Seema Jayachandran (UCLA), 28 March - 1 April

Juuso Välimäki (University of Southhampton, UK), 11-15 April

Yu-Chin Chen (University of Washington), 18-22 April

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Stanford), 25-29 April

Eran Yashiv (Tel Aviv University), 25-29 April