Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Volume 1

Victor Chernozhukov is the International Ford Professor in the Department of Economics at MIT and Center for Statistics and Data Science of MIT. He is a Fellow of The Econometric Society and a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Arnold Zellner Award, and the Bessel Award. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2016. In 2019 he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics with the citation ‘for pathbreaking contributions to high-dimensional inference’.

Johannes Hörner is the Alfred Cowles Professor of Economics at Yale University and directeur de recherche at CNRS and the Toulouse School of Economics. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and served as Co-Editor of Theoretical Economics and Economic Theory and Editor of American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. His research is in economic theory, with emphasis on game theory.

Eliana La Ferrara is a Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She is the 2023 President of the Econometric Society and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research is in Development and Political Economics, particularly on the role of social factors in economic development.

Iván Werning is the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been since earning his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2002. He is an Argentine economist with research interests in macroeconomics, international economics and public finance. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.