SMYE started as a small-scale meeting for German PhD students in Essen, 1996. With great enthusiasm of Uwe Dulleck, the founder of SMYE, it expanded rapidly from an initial 30 participants in Essen to over 100 participants in its third year in Berlin. When it went international it quickly reached its current size of 200.
SMYE gained further momentum thanks to the involvement and energy of a very large number of young economists. Recent editions of SMYE have attracted over 800 applications in each year from all over the world.
In its 15 year history SMYE has been organised at the following institutions (keynote speakers who addressed the conference in parenthesis):
1996 - University of Essen
1997 - University of Munich
1998 - Humbolt University, Berlin (Bob Aumann)
1999 - University of Amsterdam (Peter Diamond)
2000 - University of Oxford (Paul Klemperer and Jean Tirole)
2001 - University of Copenhagen (Philippe Aghion and Martin Browning)
2002 - University Paris 1 (Richard Blundell and Roger Guesnerie)
2003 - University of Leuven (Paul DeGrauwe, Jean-Philippe Platteau and Mark Rosenzweig)
2004 - University of Warsaw (Tony Atkinson and Katerina Juselius)
2005 - Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva (Anirudh L. Nagar and Helene Rey)
2006 - Sevilla: Centro de Estudios Andaluces, University Pablo de Olavide and University of Seville (Anindya Banerjee and Robin Boadway)
2007 - University of Hamburg (Ariel Rubinstein, Stephen Turnowsky and Patrick Francois)
2008 - University of Lille 2 (Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, David de la Croix and Omer Moav)
2009 - Marmara University (Karim M. Abadir, Gabriel Talmain and Mehmet Balc)
2010 - CEPS/INSTEAD Research Institute and the University of Luxembourg (Galina Hale and Tito Boeri)
The next conference will take place in Groningen, the Netherlands from 14 to 16 April 2011. Visit the conference web-page at: http://www.smye.org