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Executive Committee Meeting of January 3, 2019 AEA Papers and Proceedings 2019, 109: 603–611 https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.109.603 Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee Atlanta, GA January 3, 2019 The second meeting of the 2018 Executive The minutes of the April 20, 2018 meeting were Committee was called to order by President approved as written. Olivier Blanchard at 10:03 am on January 3, 2019 in Room M103–M105 of the Atlanta Report on the Annual Meetings Rousseau Marriott Marquis. Members present were: and Loftis .—Rousseau reviewed the( schedule Susan Athey, Ben Bernanke, Olivier Blanchard, of future )meetings: San Diego, January 3–5, Nicholas Bloom, John Campbell, Steven 2020 Friday, Saturday, and Sunday ; Chicago, Durlauf, Erica Field, Amy Finkelstein, Simon January( 3–5, 2021 Sunday, Monday,) and Gilchrist, Pinelopi Goldberg, Johannes Hörner, Tuesday ; Boston, January( 7–9, 2022 Friday, Hilary Hoynes, Adriana Lleras-Muney, Saturday,) and Sunday ; New Orleans, January( Alexandre Mas, Enrico Moretti, Alvin Roth, 6–8, 2023 Friday, Saturday,) and Sunday ; San Peter Rousseau, Matthew Shapiro, Robert Antonio, January( 5–7, 2024 Friday, Saturday,) Shiller, and Betsey Stevenson. Also attending and Sunday ; San Francisco, January( 3–5, 2025 were: Janet Yellen, newly elected President- Friday, Saturday,) and Sunday ; Philadelphia, Elect; Lawrence Katz and David Romer, newly January( 3–5, 2026 Saturday,) Sunday, and elected Vice-Presidents; and Martha Bailey Monday ; and Washington,( DC, January 3–5, and Susanto Basu, newly elected members. 2027 Sunday,) Monday, and Tuesday . Loftis Attending parts of the meeting to give reports reported( that contracting with Washington) for were: Shelly Lundberg and Judith Chevalier, 2027 had been completed in the summer of 2018. Chair and incoming Chair of the Committee Registration on December 10 for Atlanta on the Status of Women in the Economics was 11,174, 7.3 percent lower than the 12,050 Profession CSWEP ; Ebonya Washington and registered on the same date for Philadelphia Gary Hoover,( Co-Chairs) of the Committee on in 2018, lower than the 11,856 registered for the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Chicago 2017 and the 12,018 for San Francisco Profession; Phillip Swagel and Katherine 2016 , but( about) the same as the 11,163 regis- Smith, Chair and Washington Representative tered( )for Boston 2015 and above the 10,828 of the Committee on Government Relations; for Philadelphia 2014( .) Final registration num- John Haltiwanger, Chair of the Committee bers were 13,457( for )Philadelphia, 13,465 for on Economic Statistics; Marianne Bertrand, Chicago, 13,335 for San Francisco, 12,859 for Chair of the Committee on Equity, Diversity, Boston, and 12,218 for Philadelphia. There were and Professional Conduct; Alan Auerbach 7,197 peak room nights booked for Atlanta on by phone , Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee December 10, 2018, 7,261 for Philadelphia, to( Appoint) a New Editor for the American 7,157 for Chicago, 8,463 for San Francisco, Economic Journal: Economic Policy; and Lars 7,320 for Boston, and 7,246 for Philadelphia on Vilhuber, AEA Data Editor. General Counsel these dates in 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014. Terry Calvani and staff members Michelle To reduce excess demand for the headquar- DeBlasi, Elizabeth Braunstein, Barbara Fiser, ters hotel, a premium of $50 per night was once Gwyn Loftis, Kelly Markel, Steve Stelling, Jane again charged for rooms there, which was used Voros, and Dawn Wallhausen also attended. to defray the costs of registration. Blanchard welcomed the newly elected mem- bers of the 2019 Executive Committee and Report of the Ad Hoc Search Committee for a noted that this was the final meeting for Athey, New Editor of the American Economic Journal: Campbell, Goldberg, Hoynes, and Shiller. He Economic Policy Auerbach .—Blanchard thanked the outgoing members for their service. appointed a search committee( in) August 2018 603 604 AEA PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS MAY 2019 to recommend a replacement for Matthew to initial three-year terms and to re-appoint Shapiro, who would be stepping down as Editor Timothy Cogley to a third and final three-year of AEJ: Policy in December 2019. Auerbach, term on the Board of Editors of AEJ: Macro Chair of the search committee consisting also ending in December 2021. Acting on Hörner’s of Mark Duggan, Michael Greenstone,( Kathleen recommendation, it was VOTED to appoint McGarry, Valerie Ramey, and Jonathan Alexander Wolitzsky to an initial three-year term Skinner , described the process the committee and to re-appoint Guillaume Frechette to a sec- members) used to identify and screen prospects ond three-year term on the Board of Editors of to succeed Shapiro, including requesting nomi- AEJ: Micro ending in December 2021. Acting nations from the AEA membership. After dis- on Shapiro’s recommendation, it was VOTED cussion, it was VOTED to appoint Erzo Luttmer to appoint Jeffrey Clemens, Joseph Doyle, Kate to a three-year term as Editor effective January Ho, and Melissa Kearney to initial three-year 1, 2020. terms and to re-appoint Mark Duggan to a sec- ond three-year term on the Board of Editors of Report of the Committee on Editorial AEJ: Policy ending in December 2021. Appointments Hoynes .—Hoynes reported that several editorial( appointments) approved by Report of the Data Editor Vilhuber .— the committee were ready for action. Upon the Vilhuber reported that work on( a new )and committee’s recommendation, it was VOTED improved “Data and Code Availability Policy” to re-appoint Steven Durlauf to a third and is progressing, and that he is working selectively final three-year term as Editor of the Journal with a few journal editors on pre-publication of Economic Literature starting in July 2019 assessments. He announced that the new “AEA and ending in June 2022. Acting on Duflo’s Data and Code Depository” will be available recommendation, it was VOTED to appoint to new submissions in the second quarter of Isaiah Andrews, Ned Augenblick, Eduardo 2019 and that historical submissions would be Azevedo, Georgy Egorov, Patrick Francois, migrated to the depository in the third quarter. Ryan Oprea, Juan Ortner, Bruno Strulovici, Pre-acceptance verification of data and pro- and Nico Voigtlander to initial three-year grams will be extended to other AEA journals terms on the Board of Editors of the American over the course of 2019. A discussion ensued Economic Review ending in December 2021, about the appropriate time in the review pro- and to re-appoint Heski Bar-Isaac, Alessandra cess when verification of data and code would Casella, John Van Reenen, and Tomasz occur, with some advocating for review imme- Strzalecki to second three-year terms ending diately prior to acceptance while others indi- in March 2022, Charles Sprenger to a second cated that verification at the time of a revise and three-year term ending in December 2022, resubmit decision might be more appropriate. and Ariel Burstein, Sylvain Chassang, Brian Vilhuber indicated that he continues to evaluate Knight, and Philip Oreopoulos to third and final this with the editors. It was then VOTED that three-year terms ending in December 2021. all historical archives shall be licensed under a Acting on Moretti’s recommendation, it was mixed open-source license, which represents a VOTED to appoint Heidi Williams to an ini- change to the Association’s overall policy as to tial three-year term as Coeditor of the Journal intellectual property. It was also VOTED that of Economic Perspectives, to appoint Janice all future supplements in the hosted repository Eberly and David Figlio to initial three-year will have copyright to the authors rather than terms as Associate Editors, and to re-appoint to the Association, will have a requirement to Dora Costa to a second and final three-year make the relevant databases available under term as Associate Editor ending in December some open license sufficient for replication, and 2021. Acting on Mas’ recommendation, it was that all code be available under an open-source VOTED to appoint Neale Mahoney to an ini- license sufficient to allow for replication. tial three-year term as Coeditor of AEJ: Applied ending in December 2021. Acting on Glichrist’s Report on Job Openings for Economists and recommendation, it was VOTED to appoint JOE Network Rousseau .—Rousseau reviewed Cristina Arellano, Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, the written report( of the )Director of JOE, pub- Joseph Kaboski, and Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe lished in the 2019 Supplemental Proceedings. VOL. 109 MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 605 The number of new jobs listed increased by 3.4 which some members expressed concerns about percent in 2018, and there were 5,065 active job how and when in a project’s life the randomiza- candidates and 14,315 approved letter writers tion would occur, the transition costs that might enrolled in the JOE Network on December 1. be imposed on authors not conforming to ran- The system had also fulfilled 153,203 reference dom ordering, and the possibility of manipula- requests, a slight decrease from the 158,362 ful- tion by authors, while others expanded upon the fillments over the same period in 2017. Both job merits of random ordering. It was then VOTED preference signaling and the March job scram- to accept the random order proposal as written. ble completed their thirteenth years in 2018. Signaling allows job candidates to indicate a Reports of the Journal Editors.— Reporting special interest in two job vacancies in early for Duflo, Rousseau noted that the AER will December. In 2018, 1,928 job candidates sent a publish a regular May issue starting in 2019 now total of 3,746 signals of interest to 690 employ- that the annual AEA Papers and Proceedings ers. The scramble helps to match job candidates is being published separately from the AER.
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