ES7WC Invited Symposia

Invited Symposia

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Room 518, West Bldg.

Trade
Chair: Michihiro Ohyama (Keio University)
Discussant: Alan Winters (The World Bank and the Univ. of Birmingham)

Trade and Wages
Paul R. Krugman (Stanford University)

Politics and Trade Policy
Elhanan Helpman (Tel Aviv University)

Room 517, West Bldg.

Time Series Analysis
Chair: Michio Hatanaka (Tezukayama University)
Discussant: Herman K. van Dijk (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)

Causal Relations Between Possibly Nonstationary Time Series and Related Statistical Inference
Yuzo Hosoya (Tohoku University)

Cointegration, Long-run Comovements, and Long-horizon Forecasting
James H. Stock (Harvard University)

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 4:00 - 5:45 p.m.

Room 518, West Bldg.

Industrial Organization
Chair: Jean Tirole (Universite des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse)
Discussant: Jacques Cremer (Universite des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse)

Testing and Measurement in Competition Models
Timothy F. Bresnahan (Stanford University)

Crossed Sticks and Can-openers: Game Theoretic Models of Market Structure
John Sutton (London School of Economics)

Room 517, West Bldg.

Political Economy
Chair: Kotaro Suzumura (Hitotsubashi University)
Discussant: Herve Moulin (Duke University) and Gerard Roland (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)

Analysis of Democratic Institutions
Roger Myerson (Northwestern University) (Due to illness, Jeffrey Banks is unable to attend the World Congress. Roger Myerson has graciously consented to fill in for him as well as presenting his own paper.)

THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Room 518, West Bldg.

The Use and Evaluation of Calibration Method
Chair: Kenneth F. Wallis (University of Warwick)

Panel: Thomas F. Cooley (University of Rochester); A. Ronald Gallant (University of N. Carolina); Finn E. Kydland (University of Texas); Adrian R. Pagan (Australian National University)

Room 517, West Bldg.

Foundations of Rationality and Equilibrium
Chair: Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University)
Discussant: Stephen Morris (The University of Pennsylvania)

Rationality and Knowledge in Game Theory
Eddie Dekel (Northwestern University) Faruk Gul (Princeton University)

FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Room 518, West Bldg.

Labor Economics
Chair: Richard Blundell (University College, London)
Discussant: Yoram Weiss (Tel Aviv University)

The Employment Relationship
Robert S. Gibbons (Cornell University)

Empirical Equilibrium Search Models
Geert Ridder (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)

Room 517, West Bldg.

Experimental Economics
Chair: Daniel McFadden (University of California at Berkeley)
Discussant: Jan Potters (Tilburg University)

Experiments and the Economics of Individual Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty
John Hey (University of York)

Theory and Experiment in the Analysis of Strategic Behavior
Vincent Crawford (University of California at San Diego)

SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Room 518, West Bldg.

Economic History
Chair: James Mirrlees (University of Cambridge)
Discussant: Tetsuji Okazaki (University of Tokyo)

Endogenous Growth: Lesson for and from Economic History
N. F. R. Crafts (University of Warwick )

The Study of Economic Institutions Through Economic History
Avner Greif (Stanford University)

Room 517, West Bldg.

Computationally-Intensive Method in Econometrics
Chair: Giorgio Calzolari (Universita di Firenze)
Discussant: Neil Shephard (Nuffield College, Oxford)

Posterior Simulators in Econometrics
John Geweke (University of Minnesota)

Ordinary Least Squares Subject to Monotonicity and Concavity Constraints, with an Application to Cost Functions
Paul A. Ruud (University of California, Berkeley)

MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Room 518, West Bldg.

Economic Development
Chair: Mark R.Rosenzweig (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Dilip Mookherjee (Indian Statistical Institiute)

Poverty Traps
Partha S. Dasgupta (University of Cambridge)
(paper presented by Mark Armstrong, University of Southampton)p> Evaluation of Financial Systems: an Application to Thai Rural Credit
Robert M. Townsend (University of Chicago)

Room 517, West Bldg.

Evolution and Learning
Chair: Mamoru Kaneko (Tsukuba University)
Discussant: David Levine (The University of California, Los Angeles)

Evolutionary Game Theory in Economics
Michihiro Kandori (University of Tokyo)

Learning from Learning in Economics
Ramon Marimon (European University Institute, Florence)

TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Room 518, West Bldg.

The Economics of Transition
Chair: Masahiko Aoki (Stanford University),br> Discussant: Yingyi Qian (Stanford University)

The Economics of Transition
John McMillan (University of California at San Diego)

Transition as a Process of Large Scale Institutional Change
Matthias Dewatripont (with Gerard Roland) (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)

Room 517, West Bldg.

Bootstrap Methods in Econometrics
Chair: Maxwell L. King (Monash University)
Discussant: Russell Davidson (GREQE, Aix-Marseille II and Queen's University, Canada)

Bootstrap Methods in Econometrics: Theory and Numerical Performance
Joel Horowitz (University of Iowa)

Whitney K. Newey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 3:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Room 518, West Bldg.

Growth
Chair: Chikashi Moriguchi (Osaka University)
Discussant: Noriyuki Yanagawa (Keio University)

Structural Aspects of the Growth Process
Peter Howitt (with Philippe Aghion) (IDEI, Universite des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse)

The Engine of Growth: The Production Function for Knowledge
Boyan Jovanovic (New York University)

Room 517, West Bldg.

Financial Econometrics
Chair: Tim Bollerslev (Northwestern University)
Discussant: Peter Schotman (University of Limburg)

Econometric Models of Option Pricing Errors
Eric Renault (Universite des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse)

New Methods for Estimation of Financial Models
George Tauchen (Duke University)


Program World Conference Econometric Society, Tokyo, August 1995