33rd Conference, Montréal

Save the Date! 33rd Annual Conference

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We are delighted to announce that the 33rd International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF 2027) will be held from June 28 to 30, 2027, in Montréal, Canada, hosted by HEC Montréal, with Nora Traum (HEC Montréal) as Program Chair.

We are thrilled to welcome Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania), Tatiana Filatova (TU Delft), and Laura Veldkamp (Columbia Business School) as our keynote speakers.

The call for papers will be announced in the coming months.

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SCE Student Paper Award — CEF 2026 Winner and Runners-Up

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The Society for Computational Economics is pleased to announce the results of the Graduate Student Paper Award at the 32nd Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF 2026), held at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The award recognizes outstanding research by young scholars in computational economics and finance.

The selection was made by Thomas Lubik, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, who chaired the award committee. The results were announced on 30 June 2026 during Michael Reiter’s plenary lecture.

Winner

Piero De Dominicis (Bocconi University) — “The Micro and Macro Implications of Early Career Skills Mismatch.”

The committee selected the paper for its strong referee evaluations, noting it as the most complete of the three and a solo-authored contribution.

Runners-Up

  • Yoshiya Yokomoto (Keio University) — “Accelerating the Krusell-Smith Algorithm with Deep Learning.”
  • Steven Hoekstra (University of Amsterdam) — “Forecasting with a Dutch Agent-Based Model and Optimally Behaving Households.”

The Society congratulates Piero, Yoshiya, and Steven on their excellent work, and warmly thanks Thomas Lubik for chairing the selection. We look forward to following their research in the years ahead.

 

New Research Initiative: AI as a “Babel Fish” for Structural Economics

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The Society for Computational Economics has launched “AI as a Babel Fish for Structural Economics,” a multi-year research program—organized as three open working groups—to make computational tools much more accessible by harnessing AI to do the translations.

Read the research program

The Legacy of David Kendrick’s Contributions to Computational Economics

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On May 28–29, 2026, in Washington, DC, the Society for Computational Economics held a conference honoring the legacy of David A. Kendrick (1937–2024) and his foundational contributions to computational economics.

Visit the David A. Kendrick Memorial Conference website

Save the Date! 32nd Annual Conference

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Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy

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SCE Session at ASSA 2025

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The SCE session on “Labor, Inequality, and Monetary Policy” was held at the ASSA conference on Saturday, January 4, 2025.

Session details are here.