The European Economic Association (EEA) is a professional academic body which links European economist

Economist

An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...

s. It was founded in the mid-1980s. Its first annual congress was in 1986 in Vienna

Vienna

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, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. Its first President was Jacques Drèze

Jacques Drèze

Jacques H. Drèze is a Belgian economist noted for his contributions to economic theory, econometrics, and economic policy as well as for his leadership in the economics profession. Drèze was the first President of the European Economic Association in 1986 and was the President of the Econometric...

.

The present President, Christopher Pissarides, shared the 2010 Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

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 in Economic Sciences with Peter Diamond

Peter Diamond

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 and Dale Mortensen, for his work on the efficiency of recruitment and wage formation as well as labor-market regulation.

It publishes the Journal of the European Economic Association

Journal of the European Economic Association

Journal of the European Economic Association is a general-interest journal in economics. Established in 2003, the JEEA is an outlet for theoretical and empirical work with global relevance and is published jointly by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the European Economic Association....

(JEEA).

Its objectives are

". . . to contribute to the development and application of economics as a science in Europe; to improve communication and exchange between teachers, researchers and students in economics in the different European countries"

Executive Committee 2011

• President Christopher Pissarides - London School of Economics
• President Elect Jordi Galí
  Jordi Galí
  Jordi Galí is a Spanish macroeconomist who is regarded as one of the main figures in New Keynesian macroeconomics today...
  
   - CREI, Barcelona
• Vice-President Manuel Arellano
  Manuel Arellano
  Manuel Arellano is a highly cited Spanish economist specialising in econometrics and empirical microeconomics. He has been a professor of economics at CEMFI in Madrid since 1991.He studied economics at Universidad de Barcelona....
  
   - CEMFI, Madrid
• Past President Timothy Besley - London School of Economics
• Secretary Piero Tedeschi - Università Cattolica, Milan
• Treasurer Simon Gaechter - University of Nottingham
• JEEA Editor Fabrizio Zilibotti
  Fabrizio Zilibotti
  Fabrizio Zilibotti is an Italian economist. He is currently the Head of the Chair of Macroeconomics and Political Economy of the University of Zürich's Department of Economics. Zilibotti was previously Professor of Economics at University College London and at the Institute for International...
  
  - University Of Zurich

External links

• European Economic Association Official website
• The EEA's History