The keynote lecture at the annual conference of the Israeli Economic Association is the Patinkin Lecture, in memory of Dan Patinkin, who was the first president of the Israeli Economic Association, laying the foundations for the study of economics in Israel, and the recipient of the Israel Prize in Social Sciences in 1970.  

Past speakers:

40th Annual Conference – Philippe Aghion- – "Technological Revolutions and the Triangle Between Firms, Government, and Civil Society"

39th Annual Conference – Dani Rodrik – "The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy (and its Enemies)"

38th Annual Conference – Joseph Zeira- "Israeli Economy: Four Decisions and Two Dilemmas"

36th Annual Conference – Martin Eichenbaum – "Macroeconomic Policy and the Corona Crisis"

35th Annual Conference – Ariel Rubinstein – "Economics Without Prices"

34th Annual Conference – Elhanan Helpman – "Globalization and Inequality"

33rd Annual Conference – Anat Admati – "Corporate Political Economy"

32nd Annual Conference – Moshe Justman – "Education Economics to Education Policy"

31st Annual Conference – Nitzan Shmuel- "Economics of Elections"

30th Annual Conference – Joel Mokir – "The Needham Puzzle: China, Europe, and the Beginning of Economic Growth in the World"

29th Annual Conference – Sergiu Hart – "Two are Better than One"

28th Annual Conference – Jeff Sachs – "Rethinking Economic Growth Goals (Inequality, Happiness, Sustainability… and What Went Wrong (in the US and Maybe Israel too)"

27th Annual Conference – Eytan Sheshinski – "Taxation of Natural Resources"

25th Annual Conference – Edmund Phelps – "Lessons of the Crisis for Economic Theory and Economic Policy"

24th Annual Conference – Assaf Razin – "Migration and Welfare Policy: The Political-Economic Aspect"

23rd Annual Conference – Zvi Bodie, Eytan Sheshinski – "Life-cycle Finance and Pension Reform", "Mandatory Pension in Israel"

22nd Annual Conference – Stanley Fischer – "At the End of the First Year at the Bank"