In addition to the stimulating intellectual environment, and the opportunity to spend two weeks without outside distractions, there a number of additional reasons to come to AIER.

• Use of our extensive economics library both while you are here and after you have left. At 25,000 volumes, ours is the largest collection among similar economic research organizations.
• Access to an outstanding network of AIER student alumni, visiting research fellows, and friends.
• Possibility of publishing your work in AIER's publications. The Economic Bulletin of December 2011 is a collection of students' articles.
• Our conferences have attracted scholars at the top of their profession, including several Nobel Prize winners and distinguished professors such as Douglas North, Richard Posner, Kenneth Rogoff, Richard Stroup, Lawrence White, Stanley Fish, Edward J. Kane and Lee Hoskins. Past conference topics have included: "Prospects for Reforming the IMF and World Bank," "The Future of the Dollar," "Global Climate Change," "Property Rights," and "Prospects for Resumption of the Gold Standard."
• Ability to return to AIER as a returning student, guest speaker, or visiting research fellow.