NES is delighted to announce that NES Visiting Professor and alumna Maria Petrova (MAE’2004) has been elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
The election to the Econometric Society highlights the exceptional achievements of the academics and their ongoing contributions to the world economic community. As noted on the Econometric Society website, since 1931, only 1,229 total fellows have been elected. To date, 84 Econometric Society Fellows have won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Maria has been working at NES since 2008. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Pompeu Fabra University and a Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at NES. Maria Petrova graduated from NES in 2004, then earned her PhD at Harvard University in 2008. Her research interests are political economy, media economics, and corporate governance. From 2012 to 2013, she served as a visiting research fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. Maria Petrova serves on the board of directors and editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies. Her articles are published in the world's leading peer-reviewed journals.
Among current Fellows of the Econometric Society there are other members of the NES community: Valery Makarov, NES President Emeritus; Victor Polterovich, NES Professor Emeritus; NES Alumni and Members of the NES International Advisory Board: Oleg Itskhoki (Harvard University), Anna Mikusheva (MIT), Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics), Member of the NES Advisory Board Victor Chernozhukov, NES part-time Professor Steven Durlauf (University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy), and NES Visiting Professor Aleh Tsyvinski (Yale University).
Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. The main activities of the Society are publication of the journals Econometrica, Quantitative Economics, and Theoretical Economics, publication of a research Monograph Series, organization of annual scientific meetings in six regions of the world, and a World Congress once every five years.