The Society for Economic Measurement, or SEM, is a scientific learned society in the field of economics. It was founded on August 24, 2013 by William A. Barnett in order to "promote research on economic measurement, using advanced tools from economic theory, econometrics, aggregation theory, experimental economics, mathematics, and statistics". The goal of the SEM is to promote in economics--given the constraints of a social science--the implementation of the strict rules of measurement and data gathering standards used in the physical sciences. Carnegie Mellon University, the Center for Financial Stability, and the University of Kansas are sponsors of the society.
The inaugural conference of the SEM was held at the Harper Center of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business on August 18–20, 2014. It was co-sponsored by the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago.
The 2nd SEM conference was held at the OECD in Paris on July 22-24, 2015.
The 3rd SEM conference was held in Thessaloniki, Greece on July 6-8, 2016.
The 4th SEM conference will be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on July 26-28, 2017.
The 5th SEM conference will be held at Xiamen University on Xiamen Island in China in June 2108.
The full list of the 2013-2014 SEM Fellows is posted here: SEM 2013-2014 Fellows.
A. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
1. President:
W. A. Barnett, U. of Kansas and Center for Financial Stability, NY City
2. Vice Presidents:
Yves Balasko, University of York, UK
Ernst Berndt (MIT professor), MIT
Walter Erwin Diewert, U of British Columbia, Canada
Ester Faia, Goethe University, Germany
Kaye Husbands Fealing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dennis Fixler, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce
Barbara Fraumeni, U. of Southern Maine; Central U. of Finance and Economics, Beijing
Dale Jorgenson, Harvard
Ken Judd, Stanford (Hoover)
Julia Lane, New York University
Jacques Mairesse, CREST (ENSAE, Paris), UNU-MERIT (Maastricht University, Maastricht)
J. Peter Neary, Oxford U., U.K.
Paul Schreyer, Deputy Director, OECD Statistics Directorate, Paris
Apostolos Serletis, U. of Calgary, Canada
Karl Shell, Cornell
Marcel Timmer, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Sevin Yeltekin, Carnegie Mellon U.
3. Members at Large:
James Heckman, U. of Chicago and University College, Dublin
4. Member by Appointment of the Center for Financial Stability:
Lawrence Goodman, President, Center for Financial Stability, NY City
5. Secretary-Treasurer:
Stephen Spear, Carnegie Mellon U.
B. COUNCIL:
Charter Council Members:
Bert Balk, Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands
Marcelle Chauvet, U. of California Riverside
Robert Feenstra, U. of California at Davis
Kevin Fox, U. of New South Wales
Steve Hanke, Johns Hopkins U.
Jonathan Haskel, Imperial College, London, U.K.
Robert Hill, U. of Graz, Austria
Charles Hulten, U. of Maryland
Robert Inklaar, U. of Groningen, Netherlands
Peter Ireland, Boston College
Fredj Jawadi, U. of Évry and France Business School, France
Koji Nomura, Keio U., Tokyo, Japan
Lee Ohanian, UCLA
Philippe de Peretti, University of Paris 1, Sorbonne, France
Prasada Rao, University of Queensland, Australia
Stephen Turnovsky, U. of Washington
Myrna Wooders, Vanderbilt University
Nicholas Yannelis, U. of Iowa
