The general aim of the Meetings is to promote the quality of the work done by young European researchers in economics and econometrics. The specific aim is to provide a better platform for top European PhD's candidates in the international job market.

Economists and professionals working in related fields, including those who currently are not members of the European Economic Association or the Econometric Society, are invited to submit theoretical and applied papers in all areas of economics for presentation at the Congress.

Everyone is invited to submit theoretical and applied papers in all areas of economics for presentation at the meeting.

The program will consist of invited speakers and contributed papers on a wide range of both theoretical and applied areas of econometrics, microeconomics and macroeconomics.

The program will include submitted papers and the following plenary sessions: - Behavioral economics - Decision theory - Development economics - Econometrics of policy evaluation - Education policy - Factor models - The financial crisis - Theories of conflict - Trade and geography

The 2009 North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society will be held as part of the annual meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations. The program will consist of contributed and invited papers. It is hoped that the research presented will represent a broad spectrum of applied...