The Economics Discipline Group and the Centre for Policy and Market Design (CPMD) at the University of Technology Sydney look forward to welcoming you to the 2016 Australasia Meeting of the Econometric Society. The meeting will take place July 5-8, 2016. The meeting is preceded by the first edition of the Sargan Lectures on Econometrics, which will take place July 4-5, 2016, delivered by Professor Peter C. B. Phillips from Yale University.