| Acemoglu, Daron | Challenges for social sciences: institutions and economic development |
| Alesina, Alberto | Why certain countries have developed and others have not? |
| Altonji, Joseph | Multiple Skills, Multiple Types of Education, and the Labor Market:
A Research Agenda |
| Autor, David and Lawrence Katz | Grand challenges in the study of employment and technological change |
| Baily, Martin Neil | Some Foundational and Transformative Grand Challenges in Economics |
| Berry, Steven | A Proposal for Future SBE/NSF Funded Research: Refocusing Microeconomic Policy Research |
| Bloom, Nick | Key Outstanding Questions in Social Sciences |
| Blume, Lawrence | Robustness and Fragility of Markets: Research at the Interface of Economics and Computer Science |
| Boskin, Michael | Ideas about possible NSF grand challenges in economics over the next twenty years |
| Brown, Charles, Dan Brown, Dalton Conley, Vicki Freedman, Kate McGonagle, Fabian Pfeffer, Narayan Sastry, Robert Schoeni, and Frank Stafford | Future Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics |
| Card, David, Raj Chetty, Martin Feldstein, and Emmanuel Saez | Expanding Access to Administrative Data for Research in the United States |
| Charness, Gary | Future Research in the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences |
| Cramton, Peter | Market Design: Harnessing Market Methods to Improve Resource Allocation |
| Cutler, David | Why Don’t People and Institutions Do What They Know They Should? |
| Darity, William, Gregory N. Price, Rhonda V. Sharpe | Broadening Black and Hispanic Participation In Basic Economics Research |
| Diamond, Peter | Three Important Themes: Taxation of Capital Income, Behavioral Economics in Equilbrium Analyses, and Systemic Risk |
| Duflo, Esther | A Research Agenda for Development Economics |
| Eaton, Jonathan and Samuel Kortum | The Contribution of Data to Advances in Research in International Trade: An Agenda for the Next Decade |
| Fischer, Stanley | Questions about the Future of the International Economy |
| Fudenberg, Drew | Predictive Game Theory |
| Gintis, Herbert | Long-range Research Priorities in Economics, Finance, and the Behavioral Sciences |
| Goulder, Lawrence | Integrating Economic and Political Considerations in the Analysis of Global Environmental Policies |
| Greenstein, Shane, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern | The Economics of Digitization: An Agenda for NSF |
| Gruber, Jon | What is the Right Amount of Choice? |
| Haltiwanger, John | Making Drill Down Analysis of the Economy a Reality |
| Hansen, Lars Peter, Markus Brunnermeier, Anil Kashyap, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Andrew W. Lo | Modeling and Measuring Systemic Risk |
| Hanson, Gordon | Future Directions for Research on Immigration |
| Hanushek, Eric | Developing a Skills-based Agenda for "New Human Capital" Research |
| Hart, Oliver | Making the Case for Contract Theory |
| Heckman, James | A Research Agenda For Understanding the Dynamics of Skill Formation |
| Hubbard, Glenn | Some Compelling Broad-Gauged Research Agendas in Economics |
| Imbens, Guido | Challenges in Econometrics |
| Jackson, Matthew | Research Opportunities in Social and Economic Networks |
| Jorgenson, Dale | A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts |
| Kapteyn, Arie | Measurement and Experimentation in the Social Sciences |
| Kroszner, Randall | Implications of the Financial Crisis |
| Levine, David | Virtual Model Validation for Economics |
| Lo, Andrew | A Complete Theory of Human Behavior |
| McCloskey, Deirdre | Language and Interest in the Economy: A White Paper on "Humanomics" |
| Moffitt, Robert | A New Household Panel in the U.S. |
| Nelson, Julie, Evelyn Fox Keller | Economics, Climate, and Values: An Integrated Approach |
| Nordhaus, William | Some Foundational and Transformative Grand Challenges for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: The Problem of Global Public Goods |
| Page, Scott | Complexity in Social, Political, and Economic Systems |
| Poterba, James | Research Opportunities in Economics: Suggestions for the Coming Decade |
| Reis, Ricardo | Three outstanding challenges for economic research |
| Rodrik, Dani | A Research Agenda in Economic Diagnostics |
| Rogoff, Kenneth | Three Challenges Facing Modern Macroeconomics |
| Roth, Al | Market Design: Understanding markets well enough to fix them when they’re broken |
| Samuelson, Larry | Future Research in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences |
| Stavins, Robert | Some Research Priorities in Environmental Economics |
| Van Reenen, John | The productivity grand challenge: Why do organizations differ so much? |
| Varian, Hal | Clinical Trials in Economics |
| Weir, David | Grand Challenges for the Scientific Study of Aging |
| Yitzhaki, Shlomo | Sensitivity Analysis through mixed Gini and OLS regressions |
