The Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES) Annual Congress 2019 on will be held on Thursday 13 and Friday 14 June 2019 at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. The special theme of the Annual Congress 2019 will be Sustainable Development. The programme will soon be available.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Keynote speeches will be delivered by:

• Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University)
• Omer Moav (Warwick University)
• Debraj Ray (New York University)
   

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jean-Louis Arcand (IHEID; Chair), Céline Carrere (U. Geneva), Lorenzo Casaburi (U. Zurich), Giacomo De Giorgi (U. Geneva), Elena Esposito (HEC Lausanne), Rui Esteves (IHEID),  Beatrix Eugster (U. St. Gallen), Simon Lüchinger (U. Lucerne), Boris Nikolov (HEC Lausanne/SFI), Ugo Panizza (IHEID), Raphael Parchet (U. Lugano), Marek Pycia (U. Zurich), Rahul Mukherjee (IHEID), Mark Schelker (U. Fribourg), Stefan Sperlich (U. Geneva), Cedric Tille (IHEID),  Lore Vandewalle (IHEID), Martina Viarengo (IHEID),  Rainer Winkelmann (U. Zurich).
 

LOCAL ORGANISERS
The event is locally jointly organised by the Graduate Institute's Centre for Finance and Development and Department of International Economics. The members of the local organising committee are Professors Jean-Louis Arcand, Rahul Mukherjee, Ugo Panizza, Cedric Tille, and Lore Vandewalle.
 

REGISTRATION
Participants to the Annual Congress 2019 of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics will need to register and pay the conference fees on the SGVS-SSES website.

The costs for attending the conference are:
- CHF 300 conference fee + CHF 100 SSES membership fee as regular member
- CHF 125 conference fee + CHF 30 SSES membership fee as student member