SaM Network
The Search and Matching Network (SaM) is a European network of academic economists working on search and matching models, including models of labor market search, consumer search, money search and housing search.
The overarching objective is to support and encourage the pursuit of high quality theoretical and applied research in those fields by facilitating collaborations between researchers and research centers, to give graduate students and early-career researchers opportunities to meet their senior peers within the network, and more generally to advocate the search and matching paradigm as a useful way to think about equilibrium in certain markets.
Founding SaM committee: Arnaud Chéron (Université du Mans), Bruno Decreuse (Aix-Marseille University), Jan Eeckhout (UPF and BSE), Pieter Gautier (VU University Amsterdam), Philipp Kircher (Cornell and UCLouvain), Fabien Postel-Vinay (UCL)
Current SaM committee: Carlos Carrillo-Tudela (chair, U Essex), Ana Figuereido (VU Amsterdam), Manolis Galeneanos (Royal Holloway, U London), Marion Gousse (Crest), Leo Kaas (Goethe Univ Frankfurt), Andreas Mueller (U Zurich), Daphne Skandalis (U Copenhagen), Antonella Trigari (U Bocconi), and Ludo Visschers (UC3)
Past SaM Annual Conferences:
SaM 2021
Dates: May 19-21, 2021
Host: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Keynote speakers: Leena Rudanko (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) and Morten Ravn (UCL)
SaM 2020
Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
SaM 2019
Dates: May 8-10, 2019
Host: BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway
Keynote speakers: Rachel Ngai (London School of Economics) and Rasmus Lentz (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
SaM 2018
Dates: May 23-25, 2018
Host: University of Cambridge, UK
Keynote speakers: Ilse Lindenlaub (Yale University) and Espen Moen (Norwegian Business School)
SaM 2017
Dates: May 31- June 2, 2017
Host: Barcelona GSE, Spain
Keynote speakers: Boyan Jovanovic (New York University) and Richard Rogerson (Princeton University)
SaM 2016
Dates: May 11-13, 2016
Host: University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Keynote speakers: Christopher Flinn (New York University) and Ricardo Lagos (New York University).
SaM 2015
Dates: May 20-22, 2015
Host: Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Aix-en-Provence, France
Keynote speakers: Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania) and Paul Beaudry (University of British Columbia)
SaM 2014
Dates: May 8-10, 2014
Host: University of Edinburgh, UK
Keynote speakers: Per Krusell (IIES Stockholm) and Costas Meghir (Yale University).
SaM 2013
Dates: May 15-17, 2013
Host: Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
Keynote speakers: Gianluca Violante (New York University) and Claudio Michelacci (CEMFI)
SaM 2012
Dates: June 19-20, 2012
Host: University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Keynote speakers: Jean-Marc Robin (Sciences Po) and Randall Wright (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
SaM 2011 - Inaugural Conference
Dates: July 4-5, 2011
Host: University of Bristol, UK
Keynote speakers: Dale Mortensen (Northwestern University) and Christopher Pissarides (London School of Economics)