Annual Conference
A visual archive of moments, people, and ideas from our annual conference
Presidential address by Pauline Grosjean
Participants at the SIOE Gala reception, INSEAD
Mattia Fochesato keynote address, SIOE 2026
Gary Libecap at the ISNIE/SIOE at 30 Celebration
Mattia Fochesato and Florian Englmaier at SIOE 2026
Bob Gibbons at the ISNIE/SIOE at 30 Celebration
Gala reception at SIOE 2026
Participants at INSEAD, SIOE 2026
Pauline Grosjean and Maria Guadalupe
Audience (including Bruno Chaves) at SIOE 2026
The organizing team at INSEAD’s SIOE 2026
Plenary Panel “Organizing for Societal Change”, SIOE 2026
Participants in SIOE 2026 at INSEAD
Wiola Dziuda delivering the keynote lecture at SIOE 2024.
The conference program in Chicago went fully digital.
The SIOE organizing team, 2020–2024.
It is hard to focus on the institutional equilibrium during a gala dinner cruise on Lake Michigan after a great conference.
Scott Gehlbach at the SIOE conference.
Expecting the keynote lecture ...
Philip Keefer and John Ahlquist at SIOE 2024.
Chris Blattman delivering his keynote lecture.
Panel discussion on Ukraine at SIOE.
Giorgio Zanarone celebrating 11 years as SIOE Secretary.
AI Bootcamp session at SIOE 2024.
Scott Gehlbach introducing the keynote at the Harris Forum.
Scott Gehlbach and Guido Friebel at Horizon 2024.
A typical SIOE gala dinner.
SIOE conference moments.
The audience at the Toronto conference.
Reception at the Toronto conference.
Yan Chen at the Toronto conference.
Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford) delivering a very nuanced keynote lecture about the promises and perils of AI.
Jonathan Stray and Joel Leibo in discussion.
Bob Gibbons delivering his Presidential address.
Marzyeh Ghassemi presenting at SIOE.
Raffaella Sadun presenting at SIOE.
Siwan Anderson delivering the keynote lecture.
Gillian Hadfield and Dylan Menell in discussion.
SIOE 2019 conference.
Four presidents of SIOE together.
Tore reading a poem at the conference dinner.
Table 5 at the gala dinner, SIOE 2018.
Giorgio Zanarone and David Baron at SIOE 2018.
Nobel laureate Jean Tirole – the first SIOE keynote speaker who also presented a paper in a regular session.
Setting the stage for the annual conference.
Pablo Spiller and Eric Brousseau at SIOE 2018.
Bengt Holmstrom (MIT) during a panel discussion at SIOE 2017, held at Columbia University.
Giorgio Zanarone and Jens Prüfer at SIOE 2017.
Matthew Jackson at SIOE 2017.
Duncan Watts at SIOE 2017.
Janet Landa and Barak Richman at SIOE 2017.
Young scholars attending SIOE 2017 at Columbia University.
Bentley MacLeod, Francine Lafontaine, Gillian Hadfield, and colleagues.
Bob Gibbons at SIOE 2017.
SIOE 2017 at Columbia University.
Gary Libecap at SIOE 2017.
Oliver Hart at SIOE 2017.
Bernard Salanié at SIOE 2017.
Daniel Berkowitz at SIOE 2017.
Celebrating a milestone at SIOE.
The audience attending a session.
Helping hands at the SIOE conference.
Josiah Ober receiving the North Award.
Sergei Guriev at the SIOE conference.
Philippe Aghion at the SIOE conference.
Lisa Bernstein and Robert Ellickson in conversation.
Emily Kadens, Benito Arrunada, and Scott Masten at the conference.
Henry Smith delivering his Presidential address.
Past presidents of SIOE.
Dean Williamson and Benito Arrunada at SIOE 2015.
Catherine Duggan presenting at SIOE 2015.
Yoram Barzel and Harold Demsetz at ISNIE 2015.
The Coase Award ceremony at SIOE 2015.
Douglas Allen at SIOE 2015.
Eric Brousseau (Paris-Dauphine) and Lee Epstein (Washington U) having a good time at a reception in Florence.
Barry Weingast and Douglass North enjoying the conference at Stanford.
Mark Koyama, Anja Shortland, and David Skarbek in conversation.
Friends and colleagues at the 2009 conference.
Rui de Figueiredo and Emmanuel Raynaud at the conference.
Animated discussion during the 2009 conference.
Oliver Williamson at the 2009 conference.
Ronald Coase (right) with conference organizer Lee Benham during the inaugural ISNIE conference 1997 in St. Louis.